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 79
58 AIRSHIPS PAST AND PRESENT. main body of the balloon, a slight report was heard, and thewhole thing fell to the ground, where it was entirely destroyedby the names before it was possible to rescue Wolfert and hiscompanion. The disaster was caused by the fact that no suitableprecautions were taken… … Fig. 30.—Dr. Wolferts dirigible balloon about to start. kind was sufficient to put inventors on their guard, and it istherefore strange to find that Severos death was caused a fewyears later by precisely the same defect in his arrangements. An Austrian engineer, named Schwarz, made a balloon with…
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