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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ting them with hydro-gen gas. Researches on the use of gas for inflating Balloons appear tohave been carried out at Philadelphia almost simultaneously with theexperiments of the Brothers Montgolfier; therefore, when the newsof the latter reached America, Dr. Rittenhouse and F. Hopkinson,members of… … L ra^A No. 45. CiiARLiis (scf Catalogue). # r animals were placed in the car, a carpenter, Jas. Wilcox, wasinduced for a small sum of money to enter the car. The ropes were cut and he remained in the air ten minutes,and only effected his descent by cutting incisions in a number ofthe Balloons…
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