air, and igniting it in the engine."
22 The fuel he chose was alcohol. The mixing device he called a
carburetor, and the ignition source was an electric spark. One
afternoon he started his first successful engine. "Putt!" it went;
"Putt! Putt!" and then for the rest of the day it roared away steadily.
As Putting Fox and his assistants watched. "Now that you have an
engine," asked one of the Assistants, "what are you going to do with
it? What good is it?"
23 "For one thing," explained Putting Fox, "it can be made much smaller
than steam engines, and can do far more work. I want to make one small
enough to mount on wheels and carry people around!"
24 For eight seasons they worked. Then one day Putting Fox got on his
machine and rode it round and around his estate. He got the backing of
some rich friends, and using a new technique he had developed, called
mass production, he began to make thousands of his vehicles.
25 They sold faster than he could make them. On the roads when the
people heard the familiar 'putt putt' corning, they would run to see the
car. But no one ever called it a car. To everyone it was a Putting Fox.
26 Pleased with his work, Putting Fox had another idea. He went to
Soaring Hawk, the descendant of the glider inventor, who had followed
in his forbear’s footsteps. "Let's put an engine in your gliders,"
suggested Putting Fox.
27 Within three seasons the first powered airship took off from Soaring
Hawk's factory. Called Flying Foxes, they were soon seen everywhere.
These two men revolutionized their world. One lit it, the other made it
accessible.
28 Not only in inventions was knowledge increased, but a great Sky
Watcher named Looking Crow, built the biggest telescope of his day, and
put it atop one of