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Show 'There Shall Be Wings' When Leonardo da Vinci, standing stand-ing at the edge of the precipice on Mount Albano, saw the flying machine ma-chine of his designing crash in the valley below, he cried to the winds, so one of his biographers states: "There shall be wings. If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other. It shall be done. The spirit cannot lie; and man, who shall know all and who shall have wings, shall indeed be as a god." Three years before Columbus' discovery of America, da Vinci wrote in his notebook: "If the eagle can sustain himself in the rarest atmosphere, if great ships can float across the waves, why cannot likewise man, by means of powerful wings, make himself lord of the winds and rise conqueror con-queror of space?" The question was answered, the prophecy was fulfilled in the New World to which the ships of Tos-canelli's Tos-canelli's other, pupil led the way. America may proudly cherish the little shop of the Wright brothers, which Henry Ford has made a part of his collection of significant American landmarks and which has taken on a world distinction from the "deeds of the doers" who worked there. New York Times. |