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 176
independent of any experi-mental work. Consequently all their attention is devoted to instructing the men and increasing theirsmartness in the field. A special laboratory has been erected inParis for the study of problems directly or indirectly connectedwith ballooning, and for carrying out… … Fig. 94.—French method ofsuspending the basket foran observer. 156 AIRSHIPS PAST ANDPRESENT. usual number of officers and men, and there are also companiesat Verdun, Epinal, Toul, and Belfort, with all the necessaryappliances. At Versailles, Montpellier, Arras, and Grenoble theorganisation is…
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