19th Century Brainstorming on Flying Machines

The Paleo-Future Blog found this engraving from the Library of Congress Archives (look here for High-Resolution Data). It’s an excellent brainstorming on flying machines from 1885.
Other findings you can explore on Paleo-Future include an article on the wireless telephone, dating from 1910 or some funny excerpts of the Closer-Than-We-Think! Comic Strips (1958-1963), depicting how the future was most certainly going to look like.


