Engineering Wonders of the World, Vol. 3: With 424 Illustrations, Maps, and Diagrams (Classic Reprint)

Angebote / Angebote:

Excerpt from Engineering Wonders of the World, Vol. 3: With 424 Illustrations, Maps, and Diagrams Though veritable engineering wonders, the airship and the ¿ying machine are still in their infancy, so young that we cannot yet see clearly what form they are likely to take as they develop. Will the final victory rest with the dirigible balloon or with the heavier than-air self-lifting and self-supporting machine? Or will there be uses found for both types of air craft? It is impossible to say. The attitude which scouts the idea of aviation becoming more than a sport for the wealthy few seems hardly worthy of serious consideration. The advantages Of being able to travel through the air, upborne by a medium which requires not a farthing's-worth of expenditure in repairs, and which is practically illimitable, are too Obvious to need setting forth. The motor car has come into general use largely because Of its capacity to save time in cross-country journeys, through districts not served by the railway. But even the car has to keep to the beamn track, to cross a river at one or other of a few points - Often many miles apart - at which bridges have been built to traverse mountain ranges where the engineers have made the roads. Long detours are, in many circum stances, unavoidable. The aeroplane and dirigible know no such limitations. Given the capacity to keep moving in the direction desired, there will be nothing to hinder them getting from any one place to any other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.