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The story of the Wright brothers is an inspiring narrative of success. Wilbur and Orville combined to a rare degree the searching intelligence of the scientist, the ability to visualize of the inventor, and the practical craftsmanship of the builder. In addition they had great personal courage.The Wright brothers were by no means the first who soug.. q46j
Henry Cranke Andrews 2n1n2m
THE Rose, for matchless beauty famed, (although by botanists so disregarded) has been the Painter’s study and the Poet’s theme, for ages past, and will no doubt for ages yet to come; long after many a curious Nondescript shall in a dusty hortus siccus sleep, unnoticed and unknown.The intention of the author in the delineation of this unrivalled tri..
G. Frederick Schwarz 1p176j
In the ensuing pages I have made simple inquiries into the sources of beauty and attractiveness in American forest trees and sylvan scenery. In the concluding chapter, by way of contrast, I have given a short of the esthetic effects of the artificial forests of Europe. The system which shaped these forests and gave them their present appear..
Grey Drake 4v583y
In the following humble effort I have endeavored to communicate to the inexperienced lovers of artificial fly-fishing, as concisely as possible, and in a practical form, the result of my own experience of upwards of fifty years. I treat only of fishing for trout with the artificial fly, adding a few observations on dibbing for trout with artificial..
Glenn Curtiss 1y461i
The time has come when the world is going to need a new type of men–almost a new race. These are the Flying Men. The great dream of centuries has come true, and man now has the key to the sky. Every great invention which affects the habits and customs of a people brings about changes in the people themselves. How great, then, must be the changes to..
Emmet Hawkins Rixford k5t3p
In 1876 the Mission grape sold in California for from $7.50 to $10 per ton, and foreign varieties for from $14 to $18 per ton, and consequently many vineyardists in districts remote from the market turned their hogs into the vineyard to gather the fruit. At this time farmers concluded that it would not pay to grow grapes, and the vines were rooted ..
H. L. Barber 5o4i1t
This book, the “Story of the Automobile,” shows the struggle of man for one hundred and fifty years to devise a means of propelling a vehicle without animal power.It describes the various stages of the evolution of the idea of motive force other than animal power, in , England, and the United States, and its triumphant culmination in ..
George Alexander Ross 286921
The character and object of this book is set forth on its title page. It is a manual designed principally for the practical assistance of students in elementary woodwork in the Lewis Institute.The author has endeavored to present the subject in such a manner as to make simple the transition from the easier to the more difficult operations; the exer..