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Show AEROPLANE INVENTION. Tmth is, never in all the history of science have such great things been acomplished on so little intellectual intel-lectual genius as has been the case with our science of flying. And. for two obvious reasons. Flying was not so difficult of accomplishment as was supposed, was easy after the explosive ex-plosive engine was developed, though impossible before. The great intellect intel-lect had already been expanded in the motor and electric sides of the matter. This is not saving the Wrights are not beyond compare in their sharp genius in mechanics and their marvelous braver'. But the Eciencc of '-lying is not ornamented bv such Intellectual giants as is electricity elec-tricity bv Franklin, Faraday and Kelvin. Flying is i sally a composite of inventions. |