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 153
on a dark night through the outposts k 2 182 AIRSHIPS PAST AND PRESENT. of the Austrian army. It was necessary to avoid interferencewith the rest of the French troops ; the rope-holders were there-fore obliged to march on opposite sides of the road, and thisadded greatly to the fatigue of the… … FlO-. SI. Belle-Alliance Platz, Berlin, taken from balloon by a member of the.Prussian Balloon Corps. the balloonists arrived in fifteen hours at Charleroi, where theywere received with open arms. On the same evening an ascentwas made, and on the next day Coutelle had General Morelot asa companion…
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