'Flying machine designed by M. de la Landelle' Finish:none pictured 26th October 1978

pictured 26th October 1978

He served as Chairman of the London County Coumcil (1918-1919) and of the Board of Governors of the BBC (1935-1939)

In 1904 they started to make motorcycles

Note the distinctive tail fins

Out of the Bag

'Flying machine designed by M. de la Landelle' Finish:none pictured 26th October 1978Imaginary view of a steam powered orthoptere (helicopter) design by the French author Guillaume Joseph Gabriel de la Landelle (1812 1886). Clockwork and other models of prototype helicopters were made by several individuals in France during the 1860s including by de la Landelle and Gustave de Ponton d'Amcourt (1825 1888). These inventions are widely assumed to have inspired Jules Verne's 1886 novel Robur le conqurant (Robur the Conqueror or The