Balloons, airships and flying machines;
A short popular account of aeronautics by Gertrude Bacon, published in New York by Dodd, Mead in 1905 for general readers new to flight. Line engravings and pen drawings show gas balloons with netting and wicker cars, parachutes, and crowds watching ascents from open fields — usable as silhouettes, dense crosshatch texture, and small figure groups.
