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"Langley's Folly"

Today we fly from continent to continent and air travel is superseding
land and water transportation whenever great speed is in demand. A man
receives word that his child is dangerously ill; he steps into an
airplane and in less than half the time it would take trains or motors
to carry him, alights at his own door.

Commerce, industry, war and the future of whole nations are being
revolutionized by this man-made miracle. Yet it is but a few short years
since S. P. Langley was sneered at from one end of this country to the
other because he stooped to the "folly" of inventing a "flying machine."


The Trivial Telephone

Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. But it was many years