Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This French engine powered the Santos-Dumont Airship No. 9 in 1903. It performed two tasks: propulsion and the ...
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THE death at Säo Paulo, Brazil, on July 23, of M. Alberto Santos-Dumont, at the age of fifty-nine years, removes another of the few remaining pioneers through whose efforts mechanical flight was ...
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