Lectures on the phenomena of flight in the animal kingdom [translated form the Revue des cours scientifiques, for the Smithsonian Institution]
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Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution (…) for the year 1869, pp. 226-285
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Fig. 1. Frequency of the wing-strokes of a drone / Fig. 2. tracing produced by the wing of a drone rubbing a little more strongly on the paper
Fig. 3. Simultaneous tracing of the wings of a wasp in the short flight
Fig. 4. Aspect of a wasp, in extremity of whose primary wings has been gilded
Fig. 5. Trace of the median course of the wing of the macroglossa galium / Fig. 6. Trace of Wheatstone's octave rod
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Fig. 7. Tracing of the wing of a wasp the upper loop
Fig. 8. Representing the artificial insect or scheme of the flight of insect
Fig. 9. Effect of heat of muscular contraction
Fig. 10. Skeleton of the wing and sternum of a frigate-bird
Fig. 13. Left Pline's apparatus placed in equilibrium by means of two equal balls at the extremities of the rod / Fig. 14. Posterior corners of the two planes of the apparatus
Fig. 15. Posterior corners of the paper have been bent down ward
Fig. 16. Apparatus for registering the motion of the wing of a pigeon by double signals
Fig. 17. Apparatus for exhibiting the contraction the thoracic muscles of birds
Fig. 18. Myographic tracings of the pectorals, obtained from various kinds of birds during flight / Fig. 19. Electric tracing of the ascent and descent of the wing of a harrier
Fig. 20. Difference in amplitude and frequency in the wing-stroke of a pigeon during flight
Fig. 21.Tracing which express the swelling of the biceps in these 3 experiments
Fig. 22. Trace of the action of a harrier during flight
Fig. 23. Apparatus intended to transmit to a lever at a distance all the motion executed by another lever around one of the extremities
Fig. 24. Elastic point tracing upon smoked glass
Fig. 25. Harrier flying with the apparatus, which transmits the motion described by the extremity of its wing
Fig. 26. Representing the course of the point of the wing at each moment of flight
Fig. 27. Ellipse traced by a wheatstone's rod upon a turning cylinder / Fig. 28. Course in space of the extremity of the wing reduced from the motion of the bird
Fig. 28. Apparatus for transmitting to the registering lever all the oscillations imparted to it in a vertical plane
Fig. 30. Chronographic trace of a tuning-fork / Fig. 32. Simultaneous tracing of both kinds of oscillations executed by a harrier during flight
Fig. 31. Muscular tracing and vertical oscillations in a wild duck