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Identifier: reviewofreviewsw59newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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eir flight. Wide Range of Usefulness Almost daily new andunexpected uses are beingdiscovered for flying craft.The New York police forcehas established an aviationsquad and other cities willdoubtless soon follow. TheGovernment is planning touse aeroplanes in connectionwith the life-saving stationsalong the coasts. It has been shown duringthe war how invaluable is aircraft for scout-ing. An aircraft which could do a hundredmiles an hour or better would bring relief tomany otherwise hopeless wrecks. Aeroplanesare employed to herd sheep or cattle. The forest patrols can cover immenseareas by aeroplane on their lookout forforest fires. The State Constabulary in re-mote sections where long beats must bepatrolled find the aeroplane invaluable, en-abling one man to do the work of twenty.The list might be lengthened indefinitely.The perfection of the wireless telephonerenders all such patrol work vastly more ef-fective. The air pilot thus equipped cantalk readily over a range of 250 miles. The
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A LIMOUSINE BODY FOR SHELTERING THE AVIATORAND HIS PASSENGERS TRAVEL BY AIR ROUTES OVER LAND AND SEA 497 aerial police, for instance, who observes anillicit still below him, or the forest scoutwho sees the smoke of a fire, can communi-cate with his headquarters instantaneously. The Airman as Alap-Maker The observation work of aircraft duringthe war and the detailed mapping of enemypositions worked a revolution in warfare.Aero photography has been so perfected thata camera operated automatically beneath anaeroplane will take thousands of photo-graphs, completely reproducing a section ofland in a few minutes flight. These photo-graphs are assembled in a mosaic mapwhich reproduces every detail of the country.The aero map is invaluable in peace as wellas war. An aeroplane flying a hundred, per-haps a hundred and fifty miles an hour, doesthe work of a surveyor and his chain draggedlaboriously over the same territory. Is itrealized that only one-seventh of the earthssurface has been scienti

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