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The said balloon finished, by public ascents and successive exhibitions at Paris, London, Brussels, Vienna, Baden, Berlin, New York, and everywhere, I know that I shall collect ten times the funds necessary for the construction of our first aeromotive." While there, we had the good fortune to behold it with our own eyes!
In reference to this, Monsieur Nadar tells us that he was deeply impressed with the belief that the screw would ultimately become our aerial motor, but that, being ignorant of what it was likely the experiments of this first aeromotive would cost, he had resolved, instead of begging for funds to enable him to accomplish his great end, to procure funds for himself in the following manner:
He is emphatic in asserting that the huge balloon was never intended by him to be an "end," but a mere stepping-stone to an end which end was the construction of an aeromotive a machine which was to be driven by means of a screw, and which he intended should supersede balloons altogether, so that his own "Giant" was meant to be the last of its race!
"The pigeon flies!" had exclaimed one of the most persistent adepts at aviation. "They will crowd the air as they crowd the earth!" said one of his most excited partisans. "From the locomotive to the aeromotive!" shouted the noisiest of all, who had turned on the trumpet of publicity to awaken the Old and New Worlds.
We shall never have too much money for the construction of our first aeromotive. I have accepted and made a contract."
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