GENERAL INDEX

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Academy of Sciences, French, 32, 69, 215.

Accumulators, 214, 274.

Acrobat, 20.

Adam, Mr., 18.

Adelaide Gallery, 84.

Ader, M. Clement, 208, 211-214.

Ader's Apparatus, 213.

Adjustable

"Advanced against the Wind," 109, 189, 198, 200.

Aerial

Aero-bi-plane,123, 258.

Aero-Condensers,236, 237.

Aerodynamics,68; Experiments in, 7.

AEolian Harps, 194.

Aeronaute, 56, 58, 59, 94, 95, 104, 117, 119, 122, 139, 147, 158, 177, 180, 189, 202, 262.

Aeronautical, Congress,

"Aeronautics, Dynamic," 215; Wise's "History, and Practice of," 81.

Aeroplane, Resistance of Pigeon's, 43; Resistance of Goupil's, 157, Resistance of Tatin's, 141.

Aeroplanes,

"Aeroplastics," 175.

"Aeroscaphe," 94, 95.

Air,

Albatross, 105-106, 108, 148, 272-273, 275;

Alcohol Flame, 63.

Alexander, Mr., 39.

Algerla, 150, 213.

Alighting, 87, 103, 172, 201, 208, 240, 247, 250, 259, 260, 266.

Allard, 12.

Alternating Surfaces, 73.

Aluminium, 70, 228, 230, 236, 256.

Amans, Dr., 193.

Amecourt, M. de Ponton d', 52, 54. 55.

American, Association, for Ad. of Science, 197;

Ammonia, 227.

Anemometer, 186.

Angle, Law of, 6, of Flight, 43.

"Animal Locomotion," 15.

Animals, Energy of, 23; Flying, Division of, 46; Flying, Wing Area of, 45.

Antennae, 142

"Anthropornis," 32, 96.

Arab, 213.

Arched Wings, 161.

Archimedean Screw, 49.

Archytas, 197.

Area, Sustaining, 113.

Areas, Supporting, of Birds, Table of, 46, 47.

Argyle, Duke of, 271.

Armour's, M., Flying Machine, 161.

Arrows, Paper, 112.

Artificial,

Artingetall, F. D., 24.

Asbestos, 228.

Ascending, Currents, 191; Currents of Wind, 119, 189,190, 192, 208, 210, 273, 274; Resistance, 87.

Ascension, How Produced, 151, 152.

Asiatics, 197.

"Aspiration," 9, 81, 110, 188, 189, 192, 198, 201, Experiments on, 105.

"Aspired Forward Into the Breeze," 108.

Atmospheric Condenser, 236; Resistance, 244.

Aubaud, Mr., 52, 87.

Australian Crane, Wing Area of, 45.

Automatic Equilibrium, 117, 118, 184; Kite, 134; Stability of, 185; Stability, 115, 122, 130, 132, 187.

Aviation, 55, 82, 98, 140, 211; Problem of, 247.

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Back-sail, 164.

Bacon, Roger, 81.

Bacqueville, Marquis de, 13,14.

Balancing Tail, 185.

Baldwin, M. H., 33.

Baldwin's Park, 233.

Balloon, 53, 81, 190, 216,

Balloons, Course of, 119; Free, 186.

Bamboo, 195, 256; Resonator, 194.

Barnett, Mr., 132, 133, 134, 184.

Barometer, 119, 186.

Bartholomew, Alviano, 82.

Basté, 99.

Bat, 29, 33, 38, 102, 212, 213.

Batteries. Primary, 92, 214.

Battlefield, 70, 268.

Bavarian Ministers, 216.

Bayonne, 186.

Bazin, M., 185.

Bazin's "Bi-polar" Kite, 185.

Bearing Surface, 203.

Beating Wings, 115, 137, 212, 215, 224, 226, 227.

Beats of Wing Tips, 204.

Beeson's Soaring Device, 163.

Beeson, W., 163, 202; Patent of, 163, 164.

Beetle, Stag, 16.

Bˇlˇguic, Captain, 110.

Bennett, James Gordon, 64.

Bennett, Mr., 118.

Berlin, 201, 205.

Bescherelle, "Histoire des Ballons," 76, 78, 80; Note, 81.

Besieged City, 70.

Besnier, 12, 13.

Bienvenu, M., 49.

Biot, M., 160, 178, 179, 180.

Bi-planes, 123, 258.

"Bi-polar" Kite 185, 187.

Bird,

Birds, 11, 12, 13, 16, 22, 30, 39, 40, 41, 45, 53, 75, 78, 80, 82, 84, 89, 102, 108, 109, 142, 149, 200, 274;

Blades,

Bladud, King, 76.

Blanchard, 14.

Blasts of Air, 252.

Boat, Steering of, 239.

Body, of Soaring Birds, Form of, 153; Plane, 223, 227; Plane, Sustaining, 224; Upright Position of, 210.

Boiler, Maxim's, 241, 242, 243; Self-generating, 63; Serpollet Type, 228; Weight of, 27.

Boilers, Hargrave's, 228.

Borelli, 221, 222.

"Boring Through Air," 68.

Bossut, Formula of, 5.

Bourcart, 15.

Bourdon Tube, 36, 37.

Bourne, Mr., 51

"Bow" Kite, 185.

Boynton, Dress, 130, 274, 275

Boynton. M., 184, 257.

Bréant, 21.

Brearey Mr. F. W., 84, 85, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147.

Brearey s Device, 142.

Brest, 108, 109.

Bretonnière, M., 190.

Bright, Mr., 52.

Britain, Chronicles of, 76.

Bntish Association, 66.

Brown's, D. S., Experiments, 88, 112, 123, 124, 258.

Buffalo, N. Y., 197, 198.

Bunting, 191.

Burners, 229.

Butler & Edwards, 112.

Butterfly, 56, 142, 143, 166, 190.

Buzzard, 39; Beating his Wings, 2; Soaring, 74.

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Cable, Life Saving, 181.

Cairo, 151, 190.

California, 247, 263; Flying Machine, 130.

Canoe, 105,100,107, 110.

Canvas Wings, 116.

Car, 113, 120; Aerial, 33, 52, Cylindrical, 111.

Carbonic Acid Exhaled by Bird, 41, Acid Gas, 174.

Carlingford Screw, 89, Viscount, 88, 96

"Carriage, Kite, History of," 175.

Carrier Pigeon, 45.

Cartridges, 38; Explosion of, 37.

Cassier's Magazine, 217, 218.

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