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It wasn't just Newcomb who was skeptical.
Robert Clark — (archived)

I would say most of the scientists of the era were skeptical.

Lord Kelvin, one of the greatest scientists in history, was a chief skeptic. Still, it up holds A.C. Clarke's dictum about distinguished elderly scientists making predictions. Kelvin died in 1907, Newcomb in 1909.

Lord Kelvin/William Thomson.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jcdverha/scijokes/Kelvin.html

BTW, here is a detailed article written by Hiram Maxim himself about the makings of his steam-engine powered flying machine. Most researchers on the history of flight agree that Maxims approach would have been successful if he had continued:

A New Flying-Machine (By the Inventor). [The Century; a popular quarterly. / Volume 49, Issue 3, Jan 1895]
http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/pageviewer?ammem/coll=moa&root=/moa/cent/cent0049/&tif=00452.TIF&view=50&frames=1

Bob Clark

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