Chapter

 1 I   |       the same minute, the same second, although the trajectory
 2 II  |     that pass over Niagara in a second would produce seven millions
 3 III |     wind of five or six yards a second they still moved. But nothing
 4 III |     miller’s wind— nine yards a second—the machines had remained
 5 III |     fresh breeze—eleven yards a second—they would have advanced
 6 III |         to thirty-three yards a second—they would have been blown
 7 III |         hurricane—sixty yards a second—they would have run the
 8 III |        exceed a hundred yards a second not a fragment of them would
 9 III |         a speed of four yards a second. The dynamo-electric machines
10 III |        six and a half yards per second.~With regard to this motor,
11 III |    twenty to twenty-two yards a second.~Now this was magnificent!~“
12 IV  | movement of forty-five meters a second, a man can support himself
13 IV  |      hundred and ninety-two per second —”~“One hundred and ninety-three!”
14 V   |         strength to do so. In a second they were rendered speechless
15 VII |      which are not legs; to the second we have put screws which
16 VIII|        an hour, or 176 feet per second. This speed is that of the
17 VIII|       the swallow (220 feet per second) and that of the swift (
18 VIII|         the swift (274 feet per second).~In a word, as Robur had
19 VIII|      pulled up motionless.~At a second gesture from Robur the suspensory
20 XII |  hundred feet, and relegated to second place since the measurement
21 XV  |      the prime meridian and the second degree, in the bend of the
22 XV  |     heard over all. Every other second came discharges of guns
23 XX  |        going about forty feet a second. We ought, to be there about
24 XXII|         minutes past eleven the second gun was fired.~The “Go-Ahead”
25 XXII|         speed of twelve yards a second. That is the speed of the