Books
- Artificial and Natural Flight
- Li Hung Chang's Scrapbook
- A New System of Preventing Collisions at Sea
- My Life. With 11 Text Illustrations and 10 Plates.
- Monte Carlo facts and fallacies
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“If to take up books were to take them in, and if to see them were to consider them, and to run through them were to grasp them, I should be wrong to make myself out quite as ignorant as I say I am.”
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