Flying Machine Work, August 1892-September 1895

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A volume of correspondence, manuscripts, drawings, designs, research notes, specifications, financial papers, newspaper cuttings, circulars, patents and other printed items relating to Hargrave's aviation research and the work of other researchers in Australia and overseas. (263pp)

The correspondents include B. Baden-Powell (London), T.J. Bennett (Oxford), Octave Chanute (Chicago), R.W. Chapman (Adelaide), W.J. Dayton (Sydney), William Eddy (Bayonne, USA), H. Hervé (Paris), Sidney Hollands (Old Charlton, Kent, UK), C.F. Langley (Melbourne), A.L. McCredie (Sydney), William McNamara (Sydney), George C. Maryon (London), W. Masters (Sydney), James Means (Boston), G. Pellissier (Paris), J. Arthur Pollock (Sydney), Franz Reinhold (Halberstadt, Germany), H.C. Russell (Sydney), G.C. Taylor (Helsby, UK), James Thomson (Sydney), Prof. Richard Threlfall (Sydney), Prof. Albert Zahn (Notre Dame, USA), the Engineering Association of New South Wales and the Royal Society of New South Wales. In addition to the in-coming letters, there are copies or drafts of Hargrave's letters.

The volume also contains a paper on flying machine motors and cellular kites (pp 75-85) and the manuscript and reprint of his paper entitled 'Flying-machine work and the ½ h.p. steam motor weighing 3¼ lbs' (Royal Society of NSW, Aug. 1892).

There is an index at the end of the volume.

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