Bacon, Gertrude, 1874-1949 · New York, Dodd, Mead & company; [etc., etc.] · leaf 94
ttended theefforts of the brave young Brazilian, AlbertSantos Dumont. The wealthy son of a suc-cessful coffee-planter, he had always from hisboyhood been keenly interested in aeronautics,and, coming to Paris, he constructed in 1898an airship of a somewhat novel kind. Hisballoon was cigar-shaped, 83… … Santos Dumonts Airship. rode, bicycle fashion, steering his course witha rudder. In this ingenious machine heascended from the Botanical Gardens in Parisand circled several times round the largecaptive balloon then moored there, after which 96 BALLOONS AND FLYING MACHINES he made a number of bold…
Aeronautics
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