Bacon, Gertrude, 1874-1949 · New York, Dodd, Mead & company; [etc., etc.] · leaf 52
r. Edward Spencer (grand-father of the present well-known firm ofaeronauts), his friend and frequent companion ;Mr. Cocking seated in his machine slungbelow. A height of 5000 feet was attained,and then Mr. Cocking, after bidding a heartyfarewell to the others, pulled the rope whichliberated his… … Cookings Pakachute. 54 BALLOONS AND FLYING MACHINES the car. Their position, indeed, for the timewas one of the greatest danger, and they werethankful to reach the earth unharmed, whichthey eventually did. But their fate washappier far than that of the luckless Cocking,whose parachute, after…
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