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Alexander Graham Bell


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The day is coming when artificial flight will no longer be a theoretical conception of the thinker but an accomplished fact.

Now I imagine when we come to take a journey from Boston to New York through the air in the flying machine of the future we shall take our seats in a car, the machine will then rise vertically into the air to some considerable height and then shoot off horizontally in the direction of New York. When we arrive at our destination I imagine the machine will hover over the terminus and gradually sink down to a moderate distance from the earth, a rope will be then thrown down to people below, and the machine by means of this rope will then be pulled down into position upon the terminal station.

Alexander Graham Bell

The Flying-Machine of the Future, article dictated by Mr. Bell at Hotel Bellevue, Boston, MA, by Arthur W. McCurdy, 5 June 1892.

The Flying-Machine of the Future

I have had the feeling that a properly constructed flying-machine should be capable of being flown as a kite; and conversely, that a properly constructed kite should be capable of use as a flying-machine when driven by its own propellers.

Alexander Graham Bell

The Tetrahedral Principle in Kite Structure, National Geographic Magazine, June 1903.

 The Tetrahedral Principle in Kite Structure

I would not be surprised to see machine flying through space, propelled by engines and steered at the will of the driver.

Alexander Graham Bell. Quoted by Herbert N. Casson

At Last We Can Fly, in The American Magazine, volume 63, 1906.

There are two critical points in every aerial flight — its beginning and its end.

Alexander Graham Bell

Aerial Locomotion, The National Geographic Magazine, January 1907.

Fleets are not confined to the ocean, but now sail over the land. … All the power of the British Navy has not been able to prevent Zeppelins from reaching England and attacking London, the very heart of the British Empire. Navies do not protect against aerial attack. … Heavier-than-air flying machines of the aeroplane type have crossed right over the heads of armies, of million of men, armed with the most modern weapons of destruction, and have raided places in the rear. Armies do not protect against aerial war.

Alexander Graham Bell

In Preparedness for Aerial Defense, Addresses Before the Eleventh Annual Convention of the Navy League of the United States, Washington, DC, April 10-13, 1916. .


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