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Identifier: worldbookorganiz04oshe (find matches)
Title: The World book : organized knowledge in story and picture
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent), 1866-1932 Foster, Ellsworth D Locke, George Herbert, 1870-1937
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: Chicago : Hanson-Roach-Fowler
Contributing Library: Internet Archive
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FLYIXG FISH giant dragon flies. The North Atlantic flyingfish is among the best-known species; it wasso named because first known in that ocean,but now it is common in all tropical seas.Great schools of these fish greet vessels nearthe Hawaiian Islands. The great flying fish,measuring eighteen inches in length, is foundnear California, and being a good food fishis caught by the thousands in the vicinit\- ofSanta Barbara. The sharp-nosed flying fish isfound around Central America. FLYING MACHINE 2236 FLYING MACHINE
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.LYING MACHINE, mans dream throughmany ages, made a reality in the present cen-tury by the invention of the heavier-than-airdevice and the development of the balloonfrom a bubble drifting with the winds to a trueairship. Faith and Unbelief. It is a matter of recordthat when Wilbur and Orville Wright, thebrothers who in 1903 made the first successfulflier, announced to their family their intentionto build a heavy machine which would fly inthe air, their father took immediate steps todiscourage so foolish an idea. He wrote to aprofessor in a great university, outlining thecrazy proposition and asking him whetherhe believed it could be done. This professorin his reply declared a man-made flier to be aphysical impossibility, and Mr. Wright handedthe letter to his sons with the remark, I toldyou so. But the sons had faith in their idea, andthey continued their experiments patiently andunceasingly, meeting and overcoming, one byone, the innumerable obstacles which blockedtheir progress. Whe

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