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 163
IKSHIPS PAST AND PRESENT. Before it was refilled Strassburg had capitulated, and orderswere received to move forward to Paris. The march to Paris was a laborious operation. All availablevans were placed at the disposal of the commissariat department,and so none were left for the balloonists. As… … Fig-. 88.—Steam winch for pulling in a captive balloon.(From Die Geschichte der Luftschifter-Abteilung.) The French also found them to be of doubtful value. At thebeginning of the war all proposals to employ aeronauts wererefused by Leboeuf, the Minister of War. Even the offers ofassistance from…
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