Or else I got here by steamship. If so, I never could find the promenade deck.
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\u201cHence, if it requires, say, a thousand years to fit for easy flight a bird which started with rudimentary wings, or ten thousand for one which started with no wings at all and had to sprout them ab initio, it might be assumed that\u00a0the flying machine which will really fly might be evolved by the combined and continuous efforts of mathematicians and mechanicians in from one million to ten million years \u2014\u00a0<\/i>provided, of course, we can meanwhile eliminate such little drawbacks and embarrassments as the existing relation between weight and strength in inorganic materials.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nNew York Times<\/em> (9 October 1903)<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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