According to a correspondent of the Electrical Review Mr Edison believes that the time will come when transportation through the air will be the order of things in that line. The idea that the air-ship must go a mile high or more is erroneous. If it were no higher than an ordinary building it would suffice. “ When the time comes for it to be putin operation," he said, "there will be one drawback to it, and that is the ease which it will afford criminals to make their escape from whatever point their crims was committed. There will be no danger of their being intercepted by wire, as is the case now. It may be that the same science which will give us this sort of navigation will provide something else by which criminals who make their escape through the air will be overtaken. But this will take time. In my opinion, when we shall have aerial navigation we shall see more crime,' *
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 287, 16 April 1889, Page 3
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163Untitled Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 287, 16 April 1889, Page 3
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