Annals of some remarkable aërial and alpine voyages, including those of the author : to which are added, observations on the partial deafness to which aerial and mountain travellers are liable, and an essay on the flight and migration of birds, the whole being intended as supplementary to "Researches about atmospheric phenomena" (1832)
Forster, T.(Thomas),1789-1860 · London : Keating and Brown · leaf 112
to show that balloons may be guidedin the air, which, as they are not at all satisfactory to me,I shall not relate. He supposed that by alternately elevatingand depressing the course of a balloon a direction might begiven to it, and observes that Dean Swift, in his famousChateau dans lesprit,… … Qui vigilat inveniet 94 CHAPTER II. MISCELLANEOUS PARTICULARS. Sect. I.—On the Notion of guiding Balloons—the Power of Steam, as aMeans of directing Boats, inapplicable to Balloons. It has been often urged that if the early aeronautscould move their balloons, as they pretended, horizontallyagainst…
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