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[Plate I]
Glaisher and Coxwell.
Parseval Kite Balloon.

66

[Plate II]
Haenlein’s Gas-driven Dirigible.
Wölfert’s Benzine-driven Dirigible.
Santos-Dumont’s Dirigible, No. 16.

98

[Plate III]
The Lebaudy.
La Patrie.
Lebaudy’s Morning Post.

116

[Plate IV]
La Ville de Paris.
Colonel Renard.

124

[Plate V]
Zodiac III.
Zodiac IV.

128

[Plate VI]
La Belgique.
Italian Military Dirigible No. I bis.

130

[Plate VII]
Clément-Bayard I.
Clément-Bayard II.

132

[Plate VIII]
U. S. Signal Corps Dirigible I.
Gross II.

138

[Plate IX]
Parseval I.
Parseval II.

140

[Plate X]
Gross III.
Zeppelin Airship Structure.

146

[Plate XI]
Zeppelin Dirigible Resting on the Water.
Zeppelin Dirigible over Zürich.

160

[Plate XII]
Henson’s Aëroplane.
Ader’s Aëroplane.

182

[Plate XIII]
Stringfellow’s Aëroplane (Front).
Stringfellow’s Aëroplane (Side).

186

[Plate XIV]
Phillips’s Tethered Aëroplane.
Phillips’s Aëroplane.

192

[Plate XV]
Langley’s Steam Model.
Langley’s Gasoline Model.
Langley’s Two Surface Gasoline Model.

194

[Plate XVI]
Lilienthal’s Monoplane Glider.
Lilienthal’s Biplane Glider.
Pilcher’s Monoplane Glider.

212

[Plate XVII]
Chanute’s Five-Deck Glider.
Herring in Chanute Biplane.
Herring’s Compressed-air Biplane.

218

[Plate XVIII]
Maxim’s Aëroplane.
Langley’s Large Aëroplane.

226

[Plate XIX]
First Wright Glider.
Second Wright Glider.

246

[Plate XX]
First Wright Aëroplane (Rear).
First Wright Aëroplane (Side).

248

[Plate XXI]
Montgomery’s Aëroplane.

252

[Plate XXII]
Santos-Dumont’s Biplane.
Santos-Dumont’s Demoiselle.

258

[Plate XXIII]
Farman Biplane, 1908.
Farman Biplane, 1909.
Harmon in Farman Biplane.

260

[Plate XXIV]
The Red Wing.
Curtiss Biplane.
Curtiss Biplane with Pontoons.

264

[Plate XXV]
Blériot Flying Over Toury-Artenay Circuit.
Blériot Monoplane No. VIII.
Blériot Monoplane No. IX.

268

[Plate XXVI]
Wright Biplane of 1908.
Standard Wright Biplane of 1910.
Wright Racing Biplane of 1910.

272

[Plate XXVII]
Blériot XI with Moisant Aviator on Mexican Border.
Blériot XII.

286

[Plate XXVIII]
Antoinette Monoplane of 1909.
Antoinette Monoplane of 1910.

288

[Plate XXIX]
Esnault-Pélterie Monoplane, Early Pattern.
Esnault-Pélterie Monoplane of 1910.

302

[Plate XXX]
Grade Monoplane.
Cody Biplane.

304

[Plate XXXI]
Fabre Hydro-aëroplane.
Paulhan Hydro-aëroplane.
Moisant Metal Monoplane.

332

[Plate XXXII]
Curtiss Starting from the Water.
Curtiss Biplane for Land and Water.
Curtiss Triplane Risen from the Water.

482