The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington.

All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to human life, but foredoomed to failure from the engineering standpoint.

In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America.

Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird.

One of the most beautiful hypotheses ever propounded in physics is ... the Dynamical Theory of Gases

What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.

Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope.