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 375
inthe papers from time to time, and the following deserves notice.Two swallows had built their nest near the chateau of Nielles-les-Ardres in the department of Pas de Calais. A gardenercaught one of the birds, and took it in a bag to the exhibition inParis. On the next morning it was let loose at… … Fig. 220.—Dark slate-coloured car-rier pigeon belonging to HerrFloring. The bird, which is shown carrying a messageon iis Left teg, is i years old. has made lilteen ascents in a balloon, and covered , 100 miles on the return journeys. CAERIEE PIGEONS FOE BALLOONS. 35J Nielles, and was recognised at…
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