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 192
85 a complete ballooning outfit was ordered by the MILITAEY BALLOONING IN OTHER COUNTRIES. 171 Italian Government from Yon, of Paris, and a company wasformed, which has done much work in the field. Englishmethods were, however, followed in 1887, goldbeaters skin beingused as a material, and steel… … Fig. 102.—After a lauding. the time of the war in Abyssinia, the balloons being transportedon mules and camels. The German kite-balloon was employedin the navy in 1900, and in 1901 the system was still more widelyadopted. A legend is still told of a Japanese soldier who mounted in akite during the…
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