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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 September 2016
page 420 note * “ The Langley Aerodrome. ”
page 428 note * This quotation is not in agreement with the records of aviation as found in the library of the Royal Aeronautical Society. In the chronology of “A Brief Account of the Aeronautical Society ” will be found the reference—1848. Stringfellow succeeded in making his large model aeroplane to fly with a small steam engine. Further short flights appear in Hargraves' records of date 1884 or 1885.
page 428 note † A number of slides were used to illustrate the lecture which are not reproduced here. In all cases the originals of the slides appeared in the Langley Memoir.
page 431 note * At the moment of revision of the proofs of this Paper it is interesting to note that the world's record for duration has just been obtained by M. Maneyrol on a glider having- the itandem monoplane arrangement of wings characteristic of the Langley man-carrying aeroplane.