""When will man cease to crawl in the depths to live in the azure and quiet of the sky?"
"Engines of suspension and propulsion.- Above the deck rose thirty-seven vertical axes, fifteen along each side, and seven, more elevated, in the centre. The…"
"Nice, it looks like the Albatross, "a huge vessel which has many vertical propellers so as to operate similar to a helicopter" from the Jules Vernes science fiction novel "Robur-the-Conqueror"."