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 174
enard nowequipped it with all the necessary appliances. He arranged aworkshop, chemical and physical laboratories, gas generators,testing machines, and a meteorological observatory. It isastonishing to find what he was able to do. He had the assist-ance of a professional aeronaut, a sergeant, four… … Fig. 93.—Modern gas waggon. the Government had now allotted at Gambettas suggestion.But Renard contrived to resist this pressure, and it was thenarranged that he was to be allowed to proceed independently onhis own lines. After an inspection by Gambetta, the Govern-ment voted money for the further…
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