Bacon, Gertrude, 1874-1949 · New York, Dodd, Mead & company; [etc., etc.] · leaf 21
drifted away on an upper current which boreit right over the city of Paris. The travellersthemselves experienced various excitementsduring their adventurous trip. They hadconstantly to stir the fire and feed it with 22 BALLOONS AND FLYING MACHINES fresh fuel; they had also with wet… … An Early Hydrogen Balloon. their balloon had burst. But they camesafely in the end through all perils andalarms, descending quietly, after a voyageof twenty-five minutes duration, five milesfrom their starting-place. Thus was invented and perfected in thecourse of less than a year the first of all…
Aeronautics
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