I Had Not Yet Gotten Into The

When About Fifteen I Once Made A Great Scandal By Taking Out My Knife In Prayer Meeting And Assaulting A Young Man Who, While I Was Kneeling Down During The Prayer, Stood Above Me And Squeezed My Neck.

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.

My Father Followed, During Most Of His Life, The Precarious Occupation Of A Country School Teacher.

All Attempts At Artificial Aviation Are Not Only Dangerous To Human Life, But Foredoomed To Failure From The Engineering Standpoint.

Aerial Flight Is One Of That Class Of Problems With Which Man Will Never Be Able To Cope.