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TILL quite recently, artificial flight was regarded in much the same light as perpetual motion, the philosopher's stone, and other insoluble problems. But, now that Maxim, Langley, and others have demonstrated the possibility of overcoming the purely mechanical difficulties of flight, a wide field has been thrown open for scientific research in investigating the laws underlying the flight of birds and their practical application to the flight of man. The present record of investigations performed and theories propounded during the past year, will prove of great value to all who are interested in the subject by indicating what work has been done and what still remains undone.
The Aeronautical Annual, 1896.
Edited by James Means. Medium 8vo, pp. 158. (Boston: W. B. Clarke and Co. London: Wm. Wesley and Sons, 1896.)
Zur Mechanik des Vogelfluges.
Von Dr. Fr. Ahlborn. Demy 4to, pp. 134. (Hamburg: L. Friedrichsen and Co., 1896.)
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B., G. The Aeronautical Annual, 1896 Zur Mechanik des Vogelfluges. Nature 54, 25 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/054025a0
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