A PROPHET OF 1883
HIS IDEA OP AIRCRAFT IN 2000. Tho "previsionary psep at the year 2000," which the New York "Times'" reprints from an old copy of 1883, eav aerial navigation in everyday operation; but the writer's imaffination pictured an imitation of birds that the real aircraft show no signs of attempting. "The air aoovo our heads," wrote the previsionist, "would bo a'livo with gnyly painted care, fashioned in thb shape of birds' of various species and decorated in imitation of plumage, Strainß of music drop from passing pleasure boats in the dim twilight liko notes out of. heaven; laughter comes trickling down in bubHes from tho upper air; sweet voice? are heard abovo our heads." Thus thirty-six years ago did somebody imagine civilisation in tho year 2000. Since then Hie development of the phonograph )i[\s indicated hair many kinds of music might descend through the twilight.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 17, 15 October 1919, Page 3
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148A PROPHET OF 1883 Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 17, 15 October 1919, Page 3
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