Thedespaired-of thing was done.A man was flying securely and well.Scotland was agape for his coming. Glasgow he reached by one o'clock,and it is related that scarcely a ship-yard or factory in that busy hiveof industry resumed work before half-past two. The public mind was justsufficiently educated in the impossibility of flying to appreciate Mr.
" Inaudible, butconvincing, the great inventor expounded his discovery, and sent hisobedient little model of the trains of the future up gradients, roundcurves... read more