Airships past and present, together with chapters on the use of balloons in connection with meteorology, photography and the carrier pigeon (1908)
Hildebrandt, A. (Alfred), b. 1870, Story, W. H. tr · New York, D. Van Nostrand company · leaf 147
FlG. 79.—Fraulein Kathe Paulus preparingto descend in her parachute. FiG. 80.—Fraulein Kathe Paulus withher double parachute. its diameter of 40 ft., with an opening 6 ins. across at the topweight was 66 lbs. The latest novelty is a double parachute, invented by theballoonist Lattemann, and used on…
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