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 220
urs.Another long expedition was undertaken by Professor Bersonand Dr. Elias, who made an ascent for meteorological purposes,and travellel from Berlin to Kieff in Russia, a distance of about930 miles. The ascent made by the French aeronaut Godard in 1897caused a good deal of excitement. He started… … Fig. 12i.—Professor Busley, president ofthe Berlin Balloon Club. 200 AIESHIPS PAST AND PRESENT. and had covered 1,030 miles. A record of this kind is of novalue ; the determining factor is the distance in a straight linefrom start to finish, seeing that there is obviously no means ofchecking any…
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