Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1891 — Shall We Ever Fly. [ARTICLE]

Shall We Ever Fly.

Roger Bacon, the far-seeing monk ol the fourteenth century, thus forecasts the possibilities of a coming age: “There shall be rowing without oars, and sailing without sails; carriages shall roll with unimagioed speed, with no cattle to drag them; instruments to fly with, with which a man shall move artificial wings; a little machine whicl; shall raise and lower enormons weights a machine to enable a man to walk o i the>bottom of the sea* jjd bridges ovei rivers, which shall rest neither on piles nor on columns.” Now that all these possibilities, except flying, have become actualities, why should that much longer be an. exception i