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As The Existence Of A Corps Of Professors Of Mathematics Is Peculiar To Our Navy, As Well As An Apparent, Perhaps A Real, Anomaly, Some Account Of It May Be Of Interest.

My First Undertaking In The Way Of Scientific Experiment Was In The Field Of Economics And Psychology.

The Demonstration That No Possible Combination Of Known Substances, Known Forms Of Machinery And Known Forms Of Force, Can Be United In A Practical Machine By Which Men Shall Fly Along Distances Through The Air, Seems To The Writer As Complete As It Is Possible For The Demonstration To Be.

Aerial Flight Is One Of That Class Of Problems With Which Man Will Never Be Able To Cope. . . . The Example Of The Bird Does Not Prove That Man Can Fly. Imagine The Proud Possessor Of The Aeroplane Darting Through The Air At A Speed Of Several Hundred Feet Per Second. It Is The Speed Alone That Sustains Him. How Is He Ever Going To Stop?

Quite Likely The Twentieth Century Is Destined To See The Natural Forces Which Will Enable Us To Fly From Continent To Continent With A Speed Far Exceeding That Of A Bird.