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Item Sprouting Wings (part 2).(UNKNOWN, 1930) Lerwill, Leonard"Charles Green, a resident of London, did for balloons what Ford did for automobiles. He made them cheap. It was in 1814 that he discovered coal gas would do equally as well as the more expensive hydrogen. An artist with a pen who made a specialty of forgery and spent most of his life in solitary confinement has saved more aviator's lives than any other man in the history of the world. This man is M. Lavin, a French gentleman, who didn't use his abilities to the best advantage."Item Sprouting Wings.(UNKNOWN, 1930) Lerwill, Leonard"'I wish I could float up like the smoke,' she said as she placed her hand on his arm. 'I would rather fly like the eagle,' he replied without taking his eyes off the bird. That was the beginning of two schools of aeronautics. Eve was the original adherent of the lighter-than-air machine. If she were here today she would be riding in a dirigible. Adam placed himself with the heavier-than-air group. He would welcome Col. Charles Lindbergh as a brother in the fraternity. Because man is an imitator the descendants of Adam and Eve tried to imitate the smoke and the bird. In both instances they have been successful."