With my motor, a machine weighing thirty pounds will give rather more than six-horse-power, or, in other words, will produce a wing power competent to overcome much more than its own gravity.

If the Aeronautical Society does not, within the next few years, make a machine capable of carrying passengers through the air to New York in less than two days, I will make one myself." "Very wonderful, indeed," said Douglas, politely, looking askance at him.
"No more wonderful than the flight of a sparrow, I assure you.

We shall presently be conveyed to the top of this building by my motor.

Here you have a model locomotive, a model steam hammer, and a sewing machine: all of which, as you see, I can set to work.

However, this is mere show.