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JULES VERNE is responsible for the idea of the helicopter, and as a writer of works of imagination he invented devices with ease. The aeronautical engineer asked to produce a helicopter must recognise some limitations of his powers, and one is led to wonder whether the author of “The Clipper of the Clouds” could have solved the problems associated with the materialisation of his ideas. Press comments on the official conditions for the test of a helicopter, and the wording of the rules by the Air Ministry, raise the principle involved in this idea in a form of considerable interest to men of science. In the Times of May 11 appeared the following paragraph:
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BAIRSTOW, L. The Helicopter: is it worth a Prize?. Nature 112, 229–231 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112229a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/112229a0