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 248
e form part of the outfit, which means aserious addition to the deadweight. There must be at least two, BALLOONING AS A SPOKT. 227 if not three, passengers ; consequently this would require aballoon of 70,000 cubic feet capacity, which must be filled withhydrogen. The first attempt was made by… … Fig. 140.—The Lake of Lucerne.(Photograph by Spelterini.) department of the Haute-Marne, having covered a distance of140 miles. His idea had been to reach the Bodensee aftercrossing the Finsteraarhorn and the Urner and Glarner Alps.On August 1st, 1900, Spelterini started from the Bigifirst…
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