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 184
h, has been extendedthroughout the army. Lately this work has been removed fromthe balloon section, and has more fitly taken its place in the Tele-graph Department. But, for the purposes of the war in South-West Africa, a division was sent out that was wholly recruitedfrom the balloon section, and… … in 1879 under Captain Templer, and in the following year the24th company of the Royal Engineers was instructed in the M 2 164 AIBSHIPS PAST AND PKESENT. necessary field-work. Manoeuvres took place at Aldershot everyyear, in which the ballooning section played their part; and afactory with a school…
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