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 96
ty, thinking himself that they wereunnecessary. The Brazilian Government, which had alreadyshown its interest in these experiments, has made provision forSeveros family, and paid £1,000 to Saches friends. The year 1902 was an unlucky one from the point of view ofballooning, and many fatal accidents… … Fig. 39.—Severos balloon about to start. afterwards, a French naval officer, who was carrying out someevolutions at Lagoubran, fell with his balloon into the water andwas drowned ; Severos death followed, and finally Baron vonBradsky was killed in Paris while making an ascent with adirigible…
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