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Scientific American, Vol. 89, No. 23 (1903) (1903)

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o the start- entirely covered with aluminium, for which has now been substituted a fireproof fabric that covers only its utest precautions have been taken against the chances ing point. It had been the intention of the aeronauts of fire. prow. In order to stiffen all the parts of the car to make… … course. At the start he riveted and welded is form- had 640 pounds of ballast, ed of a hollow nickel-steel tube which becomes more and more oval and flattened and threw out 286 during the trip. The maximum alti- pellers, there is arranged beneath the car a sort of in measure as it recedes from the…

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