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The general misapprehension about the flight of birds is this : No bird or machine can extract any pressure from the movement of the medium in which it is supported and operating . This simple fact , which may well be called the Law of ...
The general misapprehension about the flight of birds is this : No bird or machine can extract any pressure from the movement of the medium in which it is supported and operating . This simple fact , which may well be called the Law of ...
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the bird feels no pressure of wind , the effect of these rapid currents is overwhelming . Let us take a swallow with a flight capacity through the air of 50 miles per hour . Assume three conditions of the atmosphere in which it is ...
the bird feels no pressure of wind , the effect of these rapid currents is overwhelming . Let us take a swallow with a flight capacity through the air of 50 miles per hour . Assume three conditions of the atmosphere in which it is ...
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birds , flying insects , and fishes , that is to say all single medium creatures , must , with respect to flight or swimming , be machines in the strict ... Suppose a small bird to be bound on a journey across the sea of 100 miles .
birds , flying insects , and fishes , that is to say all single medium creatures , must , with respect to flight or swimming , be machines in the strict ... Suppose a small bird to be bound on a journey across the sea of 100 miles .
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