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 80
ifflattice-work, made of tubes of the same metal. The shape waspeculiar, but it was probably owing to difficulties of constructionthat it was impossible to use the form, which had been alreadyfound, as the result of many experiments, to offer the leastresistance to the air. The ascent was… … Fig. 31.—Schwarzs balloon after the accident. balloon came to the ground in a short time at a distance of 4miles from the starting point. Great injury was done by theshock on coming to earth, but the soldier escaped by jumpingfrom the car before it reached the ground. Soon afterwards itwas…
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