Word: aerial
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Merrill concluded his lecture by quoting at length from a pamphlet by Hiram Maxim, the well-known authority on military aeronautics. Mr. Maxim's opinion is that the development of aerial navigation will lesson the chances of war in that nothing save subterraneous works will be free from the bombs dropped by aeroplanes...
...containing an aero library, besides all the current periodicals, will be secured in one of the Yard dormitories. Two distinct courses of lectures will be given; one on popular subjects, by well known navigators such as Herring, Curtiss, and Cody, and the other on the more technical phases of aerial navigation by Professors A. C. Rotch, I. N. Hollis '99, and others. A special lecture, illustrated by 3,000 feet of areoplane flight pictures, will be given in the latter part of this month...
Professor A. Lawrence Rotch h.'91 delivered an illustrated lecture on "Aerial Navigation" in the Living Room of the Union last night. A large audience enjoyed his talk and the interesting views of balloons and aeroplanes which were shown. Professor Rotch prophesied the success of the aeroplane over the dirigible balloon as a means of aerial navigation in the future...
...ocean of the air has certain analogies to the ocean of water, but its navigation is more difficult on account of the instability of the atmosphere. The wind, temperature and humidity have been measured, but the wind currents are of special interest to aerial navigators. The wind currents differ greatly with the time of day and the height. Observations are made by sending up a rubber balloon which carries a basket containing instruments. As the balloon rises the hydrogen expands it until the balloon bursts, when the instruments fall to the ground. A height of eleven miles has been reached...
Within a year aerial navigation has emerged from the realm of theory and speculation as a practical, though still undeveloped, commercial and war-time asset of marvelous possibilities. As recently as a year ago, when Mr. H. H. Clayton of the Blue Hill Observatory spoke in the Union on "Aerial Navigation," the names of the Wright brothers were the only ones generally known in connection with the subject; today dozens of men with several types of machines are solving in two continents the problems of man's flight. The conquest of the air by balloon and aeroplane will...