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Title: The luck of the Dudley Grahams : as related in extracts from Elizabeth Graham's diary
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Haines, Alice Calhoun Day, Francis, 1863- , ill Stuart, Bertha, binding designer Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences (U.S.), former owner. DSI
Subjects: Airships
Publisher: New York : Henry Holt and Company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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e thing that especially confused 76 The Luck of them. Each man supported a totally differenttheory/ as Ernie plaintively complained. It wasextremely trying, especially as dear father hadworked almost entirely in his head, leaving veryfew directions or specifications to guide them tothe right trail. At last Geof declared that hethought they would never get anywhere throughbooks; that their one hope lay in practical experi-ment. Ernie quite agreed with him, and afterthat they spent hours in the airship, masteringas they supposed the intricate details of motor,steering apparatus, and machinery. Geoffreyeven discovered what he considered a slight errorin the automatic system of shifting weights.Finally, last Saturday morning, behind closeddoors, the motor was taken out and started up.It ran like a dream. They came to the bold con-clusion that nothing remained to hinder an ex-perimental ascension! All this time it must be understood mother andI had not the faintest suspicion as to what was
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And so the conspirators set to work The Dudley Grahams jj going on. We knew that there was ^a secret inthe workshop, *a beautiful surprise for thefamily/ Just how great a surprise, however, weneither of us dreamed. Yesterday afternoon was the time set for theascension. How the two children managed aloneto raise the heavy machine from the workshopfloor to the roof by means of the trap-door andpulleys father had used in the previous experimentwill always remain a mystery. But they did! Atlast it stood among the chimney-pots, with rakishsails and scarred sides, looking for all the worldlike a tipsy eagle-bird, as Ernie enthusi-astically declared. Even by this time neither of.the little idiots seems to have had the least realisa-tion of what it was they were attempting. Onthe contrary, they were quite wild with the frolicand excitement of the thing. Geof straightened out the sails, and opened themanoeuvre valve. Tick-lock, sounded the motor.The framework quivered response. yS The Luck of

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