Technical World Magazine, Volume 12Technical World Company, 1909 |
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... miles high at the latitude of Boston , finds a wind blowing from west to east which is as dependable as the motion of the earth itself , which will whisk it across 3,000 miles of sea at a rate of speed far Copyright , 1909 , by ...
... miles high at the latitude of Boston , finds a wind blowing from west to east which is as dependable as the motion of the earth itself , which will whisk it across 3,000 miles of sea at a rate of speed far Copyright , 1909 , by ...
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... miles with ease . The Pommern and L'Isle de France traveled from St. Louis to the At- lantic coast with ease and certainty in the great balloon race not long ago , stopping then only because their navi- gators knew it was un- wise to ...
... miles with ease . The Pommern and L'Isle de France traveled from St. Louis to the At- lantic coast with ease and certainty in the great balloon race not long ago , stopping then only because their navi- gators knew it was un- wise to ...
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... miles high is the limit to which clouds attain and the cirrus proper are our highest clouds . Watching the clouds at differ- ent levels and measuring their velocity and not- ing their direc- tion from the summit of Blue Hill , Massachu ...
... miles high is the limit to which clouds attain and the cirrus proper are our highest clouds . Watching the clouds at differ- ent levels and measuring their velocity and not- ing their direc- tion from the summit of Blue Hill , Massachu ...
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... miles behind , both being stopped by the danger of farther navigation over the sea . Had further land masses been to eastward either trip might have been continued almost indefinitely . mern , seeking the higher altitudes im- mediately ...
... miles behind , both being stopped by the danger of farther navigation over the sea . Had further land masses been to eastward either trip might have been continued almost indefinitely . mern , seeking the higher altitudes im- mediately ...
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... miles , to which level we shall go at once and at which we will maintain our flight , this expansion would fill the envelope . Thus we should lose no precious gas in our first leap of three miles into the lower levels of the con- stant ...
... miles , to which level we shall go at once and at which we will maintain our flight , this expansion would fill the envelope . Thus we should lose no precious gas in our first leap of three miles into the lower levels of the con- stant ...
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