Word: aeronautics
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...their attempted exploration of the Polar Sea by air, (TIME, June 22 et sec.) Their work had been of a kind which, if the prophets are right, will be rated by future generations-if not with the exploits of Columbus and Magellan- certainly with those of Hinton (Atlantic-crossing aeronaut), Leigh, Wade and Nelson (globe-fliers) and Eckener (Atlantic crossing dirigible pilot...
...that amazed him was that men, by means of charts, dials and tubes to peer through, had calculated to an 'instant the occurrence of this entertainment. He began to study Astronomy. When, at 16, he entered the Paris Observatory, he had already written a volume on cosmography. With Aeronaut Godard he ascended in a balloon to observe the heavens, wrote his researches in books that surpassed in popularity the works of Anatole France, Pierre Loti. He founded the French Astronomical Society, edited a monthly review, L'Astronomie. In the War of 1870, he served France, spying upon...
Engaged. Lieut. John Harding, peri-globular aeronaut, to Miss Ida Reussenzehn, clerk in the U. S. Air Service in Dayton...
...attempt to radiocast a diver's voice from the seabottom having been successfully carried out in Philadelphia (TIME, Aug. 11), the Radio Corporation of America last week radiocasted the voice of an aeronaut, a mile above the earth...
...from Mitchell Field, L. I., flew above Central Park, Manhattan. The airplane carried a sending and receiving set and a similar set was erected in the park beneath. An officer in the sky then chatted with an officer on the ground. The receiving station on the ground amplified the aeronaut's words and the entire conversation of both men was sent by wire to the radio casting station of WJZ in Aeolian Hall, three miles away, and there put again on the air for radio fans to hear...