"The public is very enthusiastic about our machine."

"Instead of falling to the floor, as we expected, it flew across the room till it struck the ceiling, where it fluttered awhile, and finally sank to the floor."

"The machine was not perfect, but it was a beginning."

"The desire for flight is the expression of a deep-seated human instinct."

"No airship will ever fly from New York to Paris. That seems to me to be impossible. What limits the flight is the motor. No known motor can run at the requisite speed for four days without stopping, a…"