The Net Advance of Physics
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Being a Compendium of Materials Pertinent to Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy in the Long Nineteenth Century
(1750 - 1925)

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VIDEO OF THE MONTH (2023 March):
Small dirigibles in flight, 2012; the designs are similar to ones popular before the First World War, notably the personal airship of Alberto Santos-Dumont. This sort of personal aviation persists in France, although usually it is limited to indoors mini-flights in a large hangar.

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