Airships past and present, together with chapters on the use of balloons in connection with meteorology, photography and the carrier pigeon
A technical history of balloons and airships by German aeronaut Alfred Hildebrandt, translated by W. H. Story and published in London in 1908 for engineers, military readers and early aviation enthusiasts. Halftone photographs and diagrams show gas envelopes with rigging nets, wheeled field hydrogen generators lettered in German, and aerial views of villages and fields marked with reference letters.
