• PREFACE

PART I-BALLOONS AND AIR-SHIPS

• CHAPTER I. Man's Duel with Nature
• CHAPTER II. The French Paper-maker who Invented the Balloon
• CHAPTER III. The First Man to Ascend in a Balloon
• CHAPTER IV. The First Balloon Ascent in England
• CHAPTER V. The Father of British Aeronauts
• CHAPTER VI. The Parachute
• CHAPTER VII. Some British Inventors of Air-ships
• CHAPTER VIII. The First Attempts to Steer a Balloon
• CHAPTER IX. The Strange Career of Count Zeppelin
• CHAPTER X. A Zeppelin Air-ship and its Construction
• CHAPTER XI. The Semi-rigid Air-ship
• CHAPTER XII. A Non-rigid Balloon
• CHAPTER XIII. The Zeppelin and Gotha Raids

PART II. AEROPLANES AND AIRMEN

• CHAPTER XIV. Early Attempts in Aviation
• CHAPTER XV. A Pioneer in Aviation
• CHAPTER XVI. The "Human Birds"
• CHAPTER XVII. The Aeroplane and the Bird
• CHAPTER XVIII. A Great British Inventor of Aeroplanes
• CHAPTER XIX. The Wright Brothers and their Secret Experiments
• CHAPTER XX. The Internal-combustion Engine
• CHAPTER XXI. The Internal-combustion Engine(Cont.)
• CHAPTER XXII. The Aeroplane Engine
• CHAPTER XXIII. A Famous British Inventor of Aviation Engines
• CHAPTER XXIV. The Wright Biplane (Camber of Planes)
• CHAPTER XXV. The Wright Biplane (Cont.)
• CHAPTER XXVI. How the Wrights launched their Biplane
• CHAPTER XXVII. The First Man to Fly in Europe
• CHAPTER XXVIII. M. Bleriot and the Monoplane
• CHAPTER XXIX. Henri Farman and the Voisin Biplane
• CHAPTER XXX. A Famous British Inventor
• CHAPTER XXXI. The Romance of a Cowboy Aeronaut
• CHAPTER XXXII. Three Historic Flights
• CHAPTER XXXIII. Three Historic Flights (Cont.)
• CHAPTER XXXIV. The Hydroplane and Air-boat
• CHAPTER XXXV. A Famous British Inventor of the Water-plane
• CHAPTER XXXVI. Sea-planes for Warfare
• CHAPTER XXXVII. The First Man to Fly in Britain
• CHAPTER XXXVIII. The Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service
• CHAPTER XXXIX. Aeroplanes in the Great War
• CHAPTER XL. The Atmosphere and the Barometer
• CHAPTER XLI. How an Airman Knows what Height he Reaches
• CHAPTER XLII. How an Airman finds his Way
• CHAPTER XLIII. The First Airman to Fly Upside Down
• CHAPTER XLIV. The First Englishman to Fly Upside Down
• CHAPTER XLV. Accidents and their Cause
• CHAPTER XLVI. Accidents and their Cause (Cont.)
• CHAPTER XLVII. Accidents and their Cause (Cont.)
• CHAPTER XLVIII. Some Technical Terms used by Aviators
• CHAPTER XLIX. The Future in the Air