Chapter

 1 I    |         In fact, if there is no air there is no noise, and as
 2 I    |    phenomenon must occur in the air, the density of which invariably
 3 I    |      French band well up in the air.”~“But to joke is not to
 4 II   |    apparatuses heavier than the air,” flying machines, aerial
 5 III  |   aerostat finds support in the air it belongs to the medium
 6 III  |      tried by highly compressed air. It well merited the name
 7 IV   |      apparatus lighter than the air is a practical matter. Well,
 8 IV   |     give up the conquest of the air, and the transformation
 9 IV   |      apparatus heavier than the air—for it must be heavier to
10 IV   |         to be stronger than the air!”~And then the assembly
11 IV   |          and ‘the heavier” than air?~Robur did not even frown.
12 IV   |         the flying machine. The air affords a solid fulcrum.
13 IV   |       you will give a column of air an ascensional movement
14 IV   |      screw, you drive a mass of air at this speed, you get the
15 IV   | sustains himself by warming the air he strikes, their answer
16 IV   |     that he is heavier than the air!”~But these were only words,
17 IV   |       accidentally hit upon the air from Herold’s “Zampa.”~And
18 IV   |        made the conquest of the air?”~“Not unlikely.”~“Hooray
19 IV   | aviation had borne him into the air.~
20 V    |   enthusiasts for “lighter than air” a no less enthusiast for “
21 V    |    enthusiast for “heavier than air” had said things absolutely
22 VI   |     take in a good sniff of the air, it seems as though all
23 VII  |       of apparatus lighter than air, for that the science of
24 VII  |       contrivances heavier than air, to flying machines in imitation
25 VII  |        made to move through the air. Two centuries and a half
26 VII  |     principles of “heavier than air” are laid down. From 1811
27 VII  |     plan of gliding through the air on four revolving wings.
28 VII  |        society of “heavier than air” was founded in Paris. There
29 VII  |      partisans of “heavier than air,” English, American, Italian,
30 VII  |  aviation.~“They will crowd the air as they crowd the earth!”
31 VII  |      calculation, than that the air is highly resistant. A circumference
32 VII  |      not only impede descent in air, but can render it isochronous.
33 VII  |      the wings so as to let the air through them? And is not
34 VII  |    slanting plane to the bed of air will produce an ascensional
35 VII  |        hold it suspended in the air, the other could drive it
36 VII  |    raised itself by beating the air, the helicopter raised itself
37 VII  |   raised itself by striking the air obliquely, with the fins
38 VII  |       on the vertical column of air retained their equilibrium
39 VII  |         liquids, nor compressed air and other mechanical motion.
40 VIII |        bearing them through the air, and doubtless to compliment
41 VIII |        by machines heavier than air?”~It would have been difficult
42 VIII |        to carry you through the air, I did not think of feeding
43 VIII |  startling fanfares through the air was that of the mate, Tom
44 VIII |         devour it. I wanted the air to be a solid support to
45 VIII |       to give me a faster road. Air is what I wanted, that was
46 VIII |         I wanted, that was all. Air surrounds me as it surrounds
47 VIII |    machine that is lighter than air.”~Silence, absolute, on
48 VIII |   gradually in intensity as the air became more rarified, and
49 VIII |     diminution of oxygen in the air, and consequently in the
50 VIII |         been projected into the air, the atmosphere sensibly
51 IX   |    aerostat gliding through the air was too remote to be regarded.
52 IX   |      These are the reefs of the air, and they have to be avoided
53 IX   |     floating. through the night air.~At last came a menacing
54 X    |  Albatross” being higher in the air,” said Phil Evans.~In fact
55 X    |        enemies of “lighter than air,” they could not help being
56 X    |         floating up through the air; but no Robur appeared in
57 XI   |    whose husky cries filled the air as they disappeared beneath
58 XI   |         his lungs were short of air.~“This view of Tokyo,” continued
59 XII  |       Below the “Albatross” the air was filled with a singular
60 XII  |        of Aeolian harps. In the air were a hundred kites of
61 XII  | although the rarefaction of the air was not such as to necessitate
62 XII  |         trifling density of the air. The barometer showed twenty-three
63 XII  |        limits of the respirable air.~The pass at last was traversed.
64 XIII |         to him who had made the air his domain.~Besides, the
65 XIII |        During the last hour the air had been strangely troubled.
66 XIV  |  screwed themselves through the air.~The last town that had
67 XIV  | Albatross” glided on its bed of air like a Congreve rocket.~“
68 XIV  |     deck to breathe the ambient air.~Uncle Prudent and Phil
69 XV   |         he pass his life in the air? Did his aeronef never rest?
70 XV   |     little more in heavier than air?”~To these questions, it
71 XV   |     them.~The evening came. The air was troubled by the roarings
72 XVI  |     Robur spent his life in the air on board the aeronef and
73 XVI  |       the level of the sea. The air was calm, but in certain
74 XVI  |        elevated position in the air. Sometimes he possessed
75 XVIII|      she was pulled back by the air; some formidable current
76 XVIII|    without being disturbed. The air made but slight resistance.
77 XIX  |      Albatross” was high in the air the island could be seen
78 XIX  |         I will blow it into the air!”~“The sooner the better,”
79 XX   |         as she gunk through the air, with her electric lights
80 XX   |         his ship well up in the air, and the “Albatross” went
81 XX   |   propeller was vertical in the air and still working!~It was
82 XX   |      not death by asphyxia amid air which the rapidity of descent
83 XXI  |        of machines heavier than air, and raised a frightful
84 XXI  |         theory of “heavier than air.” And if the inventor of
85 XXI  |      effect the conquest of the air! The meeting is at an end!”~
86 XXII | apparatus that was heavier than air?~During the seven months,
87 XXII |      partisans of “lighter than air.”~About twenty minutes past
88 XXII |  introduced a certain amount of air by pumping, had provided
89 XXII |  cricked as they gazed into the air. Gradually the whale became
90 XXII | fourteen thousand feet. But the air was so free from mist that
91 XXIII|       which the conquest of the air will one day bring, Uncle
92 XXIII|         Albatross,” beating the air with her seventy-four screws,
93 XXIII|        that the conquest of the air will assuredly fall.~—End