Identifier: warineuropeitsca00john (find matches)
Title: The war in Europe, its causes and consequences; an authentic narrative of the immediate and remote causes of the war, with a descriptive account of the countries involved, including statistics of armies, navies, aeroplanes, dirigibles, &c., &c
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Johnson, Rossiter, 1840-1931, ed
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, Sully and Kleinteich
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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HEARD THE HEAVENS FILL WITH SHOUTING. AND THERE RAINED A GHASTLY DEWFROM THE NATIONS AIRY NAVIES GRAPPLING IN THE CENTRAL BLUE.—Tennyson. lU CHAPTER VIII AIRCRAFT AND AVIRELESS TELEGRAPHY IN ^yAR The most spectacular feature of the present war, and the one onwhich popular interest is most intensely centered, is the part to beplayed by aircraft. The development of the flying-machine from anancient jest to a decisive factor in warfare has been phenomenallyrajiid, and it has passed from conquest to conquest with astoundingspeed. In fact, it was only in 1912 that aviation was ofRciallj- consti-tuted a new arm of the service by all the great Powers. The imagina-tion plays readily about the flying-machine and its new and startlingpowers of destruction. It is easy to picture great air-ships speedingby night and dropping tons of explosives upon doomed cities, armies,fortifications, and ships at sea. Visions of flocks of aerojilanes, firingmachine-guns and shooting clouds of explosive darts,

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