Thus we may perhaps most easily comprehend that to which a thing is related, when a name does not exist, if, from that which has a name, we derive a new name, and apply it to that with which the first is reciprocally connected, as in the aforesaid instances, when we derived the word 'winged' from 'wing' and from '
rudder'.
A man, reading a newspaper, had just started up at the sight of the returning pigeon, when be heard the burr of Winn's engine and saw the huge monoplane, with all surfaces set, drop down upon him, stop suddenly on an air-cushion manufactured on the spur of the moment by a shift of the horizontal rudders, glide a few yards, strike ground, and come to rest not a score of feet away from him.
But he rode with a sensitive "loose curb," and quickly, but not too quickly, he shifted the angles of his wing-tips, depressed the front horizontal rudder, and swung over the rear vertical rudder to meet the tilting thrust of the wind.
The rudder is also very much larger, in proportion, than that of the model ; and the screw is considerably smaller.
Osborne's seat, about a mile from Penstruthal, in North Wales ; and at 7 minutes past 11, every thing being ready for departure, the balloon was set free, rising gently but steadily, in a direction nearly South ; no use being made, for the first half hour, of either the screw or the rudder. We proceed now with the journal, as transcribed by Mr.
Mudge, who was at the
rudder, kept in a straight line, and by a turn of his hand checked the lurches which the vehicle had a tendency to make.
Magniac invented his
rudder to help war-boats ram each other; and war went out of fashion and Magniac he went out of his mind because he said he couldn't serve his country any more.
I drew blank at fifteen, but at the sixteenth--Jacobson's--I learned that the Aurora had been handed over to them two days ago by a wooden-legged man, with some trivial directions as to her
rudder. 'There ain't naught amiss with her
rudder,' said the foreman.
The network that supported the car was made of very strong hempen cord, and the two valves were the object of the most minute and careful attention, as the
rudder of a ship would be.
Another flash showed him four men clinging to the shattered mast and the rigging, while a fifth clung to the broken
rudder.
But it refreshed me and filled me with such agreeable sensations that I resolved to prolong my stay on the water, and fixing the
rudder in a direct position, stretched myself at the bottom of the boat.
So the Doctor tumbled out of bed and went to the
rudder to steer the ship.
The booms were tearing at the blocks, the
rudder was banging to and fro, and the whole ship creaking, groaning, and jumping like a manufactory.
"For if it flies through the air it will not be unlike a bird, and I've noticed that all birds have tails, which they use for a
rudder while flying."
rigging and fitting my masts and sails; for I finished them very complete, making a small stay, and a sail, or foresail, to it, to assist if we should turn to windward; and, what was more than all, I fixed a
rudder to the stern of her to steer with.
