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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Chapters: Patrick Young Alexander, James Templer, Robert Hollond, Edward Maitland, James Glaisher, Don Cameron, James Sadler, Henry Tracey Coxwell, Anthony Smith, Brian Jones, Julian Nott. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 41. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Patrick Young Alexander (28 March 1867 7 July 1943) was a British aeronautical pioneer fascinated by the prospect of heavier-than-air flight. He was an enthusiastic balloonist and he was also particularly active in meteorology. He performed many metrological and aviation experiments, designing and building his own equipment. He travelled widely, visiting Australia in his youth and later making many visits to USA crossing the Atlantic at least 50 times he travelled widely in Europe and visited Mexico, Russia, Siberia and Africa in pursuit of his interests. Patrick Alexander was respected by fellow aeronautical pioneers and close friends of such eminent people as Octave Chanute, brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright, Alberto Santos-Dumont, Lawrence Hargreaves, Louis Blériot, Henry Farman, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Charles Rolls of Rolls-Royce, Major Baden Powell to name only a few, as well as head of states and royalty in Europe. Patrick, a world traveller, arranged meetings with aeronautical people and gave lectures on the development and progress being made in aviation. Patrick Alexander was born at Hern Villa, Belvedere, Erith, Kent, England. His mother was Harriotte Emma and his father was Andrew Alexander from Scotland. Patrick had a brother, John Edmond, three years his senior. Patrick's father, Andrew Alexander, was a civil engineer of some standing and a mechanical engineer. He was interested and active in aeronautics and he was a founder member of the Aeronautical Society in 1866. He presented some papers to the society incl...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2840546 ... Read more

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:RECOLLECTIONS OF PROFESSOR SMITH.I. BY PROFESSOR JOWETT .JI TY recollections of Professor H. J. S. Smith extend over about 40 years. -LJ- I first heard his name mentioned in the year 1843, by the late Archbishop of Canterbury, then recently elected Head Master of Rugby, who told me that there was a boy in the School quite deserving of a place by the side of Conington and Walrond, who were the great names of Rugby in those days. He was going to try for the Balliol Scholarship. At the end of the year, on that occasion, he beat all the other candidates, of whom one was the late Sir Alexander Grant, elected Scholar at the same time with him. I remember him in the viva voce part of the examination, a youth of eighteen, rather overgrown and stiff, as youths of eighteen are apt to be, construing Latin and Greek authors in a piou.s and evangelical tone of voice, which provoked a smile in the Examiners, but with never-failing accuracy. The old Master, as we used to call him, took up his English Essay and showed it to me, saying, in his emphatic way, ' There's mind in that.' The subject given for Latin Hexameters at that examination was the Pelasgi, of whom he did not forget to mention in his verses that 'they worshipped nameless gods.' Meeting Arthur Stanley on the Woodstock Road the day after the election, he congratulated me on our having chosen a youth whose fame had preceded him at Oxford.He more than justified the promise which he had given. Though not a poet or creative genius, he was, I think, possessed of greater natural abilities than any one else whom I have known at Oxford. He had the clearest and most lucid mind, and a natural experience of the world and of human character hardly ever to be found in one so young. He took up all subjects at the right end; he knew whe... ... Read more

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Includes series of lectures on the science of linguistics. Also the history and origin of the Royal Society in London. Lectures on the modern theory of chemical types, and other lectures from the Society of Physics and Natural History from Geneva. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Also Authored By A. G. Greenhill And Charles Niven. ... Read more

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Also Authored By A. G. Greenhill And Charles Niven. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more