Bad Predictions
aeroplanes flying to the opera must be kept in line and each allowed
to alight upon the roof of the auditorium in its proper turn."
- Editor Waldemar Kaempfert, Scientific American, 1913. Kaempfert also
predicted that the aeroplane "is not capable of unlimited
magnification. It is not likely that it will ever carry more than five
or seven passengers. High-speed monoplanes will carry even less."
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