Aeronautica; or, The history of aviation and aerostation, told in contemporary autograph letters, books, broadsides, drawings, engravings, manuscripts, newspapers, paintings, posters, press notices, etc., dating from the year 1557 to 1880 (1900)
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nd to enclose it in a huge vessel extending morethan a mile every way, and intended to carry 54 times as much weightas the Biblical Noahs Ark ! Cyrano de Bergerac, in his Romances^ describes journeys to theSun and Moon—his traveller being wafted thither by a multitude ofvery thin flasks filled with… … Xo. 33. Lana {see Catalogue).
Aeronautics
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