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...they did not concoct the theories on which their contraption was based. That job had largely been done by a British baronet who published a lengthy paper on aerodynamics in 1809, nearly a century before Orville Wright made his historic 120-ft. hop. In a new book, Sir George Cayley (Max Parrish, London; 425.), Aeronautics Historian J. Laurence Pritchard, former secretary of the Royal Aeronautical Society, has put together an astonishing catalog of the accomplishments of that prolific genius...
...leisurely world of Cayley's youth knew little about the mechanics of aviation, but the Industrial Revolution was transforming England; bold ideas were sprouting in a climate of change. In 1792 Cayley was already experimenting with a model helicopter. He came down to earth for a while in 1804 and designed artillery shells for the British navy to shoot at Napoleon. But his journal shows that he was also searching for a light, powerful engine to drive some sort of airplane. In 1809 he published an extraordinary scientific treatise, "On Aerial Navigation," that outlines most of the principles...
Courage, Inc. was started by Dr. Camille Kereszturi Cayley, a Hungarian-born pediatrician who led an active life until, in 1952, she fell twelve feet from a porch while sawing a tree branch. In a few seconds she became paralyzed from the neck down. While learning to live with her disability at Manhattan's famed Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, she made some professional observations about other handicapped patients. Her conclusion: without help and encouragement, many would go home and just give up. She got together several patients, founded Courage, Inc. on the same principle as Alcoholics Anonymous...
...cities have already asked to set up chapters. Courage's President Philip Guba, 35, a corporation lawyer who caught polio in Indonesia 2½years ago, is currently working with Courage's 21 directors to broaden the organization. Their goal: a nationwide Courage, Inc. As for Founder Cayley, she has become a practicing psychiatrist, although still confined to a wheelchair, and at 53 is busier than ever. She now drives her own car, leads an active social life. Once the women's long-distance swimming champion of Hungary, she can still swim a three-quarter-mile-wide...
...CAYLEY Rochester...