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 156
after it had been filled DEVELOPMENT OF MILITARY BALLOONING. 135 for two months. The men were trained to the work of holdingthe balloon and pulling it in, and the school soon had a sub-director, a storekeeper, a clerk, and 60 men in training. Thelatter were divided into three divisions, each of… … Fig. 86.—A balloon about to land. present day. As the balloon was pulled down, the rope waswound round a drum. Conte also paid attention to improvement of the signallingarrangements. He introduced a system by which cylinders,made of black calico, stretched over rings, could be used toconvey…
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