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  • Thinking of Flying in the Eighteenth Century September 11, 2011

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
    Thinking of Flying in the Eighteenth Century

    It is always curious to compare the reality of the future with the way that future was viewed in the past. Take speculations over flying. There seems to have come a point in the eighteenth century when the bien pensants realised – perhaps a bit like deep space exploration for the modern world – that […]