... flying-machine, in which cogwheels are absent and motor revolutions are not required. INVENTED BY THE CHIEF BELIEVER IN THE FLAT EARTH THEORY THE NEW VALVE AND THE OLD VALVE OF LADY BLOUNT'S FLYING BIRD. Naturally enough a firm believer in her theories ...

... is so placed that you do not look down it the glare would blind you but alongside it, searching for any bit of reasonably flat earth that shows at the end. Flight-Lieutenant So-and-so will take you up in it, said the officer in charge magnanimously. I ...

... accomplish. \A7hen experiments upon television by radio were con- ducted some years ago we were told by what may be termed the flat-earth brigade that sight by wireless was impos sible. It was never more impos sible than the accomplished fact of talking to ...