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Title: The Saturday evening post
Year: 1839 (1830s)
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Publisher: Philadelphia : G. Graham
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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dging say that in their respective spheres theywill be extremely useful. These same critics agree,too, that aeronautics will not put an end to war—forsome time, at any rate. It is visionary to speak of anyinvention as making war too horrible to be practiced. Warhas been growing more destructive ever since primitiveman first thought to tie a stone to the end of his warclub.The latest development of high-power guns and smokelesspowder—this powder is one of the most disconcertinginventions of modern war—have not served to affect theclash of armed Powers except to widen the field of hostilities. Professor Langley, one of the pioneers of mechanicalflight, said of aerial navigation at a time when suchnavigation was still a dream: It is to be supposed thatthe first application of this science will come in the arts ofwar rather than in those of peace. At the same time, whenthe movements of each party will be known to the other,when no line of forts or defenses will keep out the invading
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Krupp Gasbomb on the Gun, Ready to Fire—Emplacement Mount foe, the difficulties of defending a country against an enemyin the air will become so great that we may hope it willhasten rather than retard the day when war shall cease. The difficulties rather than the horrors of aviation willbring nations eventually to expect the abolition of war.Both navy and army officers and some aerial expertsagree that the aeroplane is weak in offensive force. At thesame time army officers say it will be effective against thenavy and naval officers say it will be effective againstthe army. It is rather like the case of the German andthe Frenchman in The Murders in the Rue Morgue. TheFrenchman thought the murderer talked German and theGerman was sure he talked French. Brilliant aviators like Glenn Curtiss, Walter Brookinsand C. K. Hamilton speak of an aeroplane as being able to put a warship out of action.Some army critics like GeneralNelson A. Miles and GeneralW. A. Jones, who watched theaeroplane m

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