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A treatise on the art of flying by mechanical means : with a full explanation of the natural principles by which birds are enabled to fly : likewise, instructions and plans for making a flying car with wings, in which a man may sit, and, by working a small lever, cause himself to ascend and soar through the air / by Thomas Walker.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Walker, Thomas (Portrait painter)
Series:
Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 39701.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Flight.
Ornithopters.
Physical Description:
68 pages : illustrations
Place of Publication:
New-York : Printed and sold by Samuel Wood & Sons, 1816.
System Details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
text file
Notes:
Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 39701).
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