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 42
MONTGOLEIERES, CHARLIERES, AND EOZIEKES. 21 no bitterness-existed between the two inventors, although it isundoubtedly true that there was a very lively controversy as to … Fig. 11.—Paris, showing the Eiffel Tower. Photograph by Count cle la Vaulx. the merits of the rival schemes. It is impossible to deny thatCharles showed great originality in all his work. The shape ofhis balloon was indeed the same as that of his rivals design,but it is obvious that no other shape…
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