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A MODEL OF THE 1878 POMÈS FLYING MACHINE
Lot 131

A MODEL OF THE 1878 POMÈS FLYING MACHINE

FRENCH, LATE 19TH CENTURY

Closed29 September 2011

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A MODEL OF THE 1878 POMÈS FLYING MACHINE
FRENCH, LATE 19TH CENTURY
the wood, canvas and metal model with crank-handle on geared mechanism actuating two propellers, double canvas wings to front, tail wing, and a forward rudder.
16½in. (42cm.) long

Specialist note

We note a reference to a similar man-powered machine in Octave Chanute's Progress in flying machines, although that design (with de la Pauze) of 1871 is for a proto-helicopter.