Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 203, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1910 — Little Aeroplane Invention. [ARTICLE]

Little Aeroplane Invention.

Truth is, and Tip hates to say it, never in all the history of science have such great things been accomplished on so little intellectual genius as has been the case with our science of flying. And for two obvious reasons. Flying was not so difficult of accomplishment as was supposed, was easy after the explosive engine was developed, though impossible before. . The great Intellect had already been expended in the motor and electric sides of the matter. This is not saying the Wrights are not beyond compare in their sharp genius in mechanics and their marvelous bravery. But the science of flying is npt ornamented by such intellectual giants as is electricity by Franklin, Faraday and Kelvin. Flying is really a composite of inventions.—New York Press.