Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Aeronautics in the United States at the Signing of the Armistice, November 11, 1918: An Address Before the American Institute of Electrical Engineers
And then an almost inconceivable thing occurred. The Messrs. Wright having thoroughly demonstrated and fulfilled all of the conditions required by that' specification, and the first machine having been duly purchased and paid for, during the eight years following the entire appropriations by this government for military aeronautics amounted to less than a million dollars.
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