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THE leading articles in NATURE of November 3 and January 26 last appear to have missed the point of my discourse on the Langley Machine and the Hammondsport Trials. My paper was written to expose a fallacy in which officials of the Smithsonian Institution had used their great opportunities for imposing upon the public a false belief that the Langley machine had been flown in 1914.
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BREWER, G. The Langley Machine and the Hammondsport Trials. Nature 109, 305–307 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109305d0
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