The Bookshelf for boys and girls Book of Wonders and Curious Things (1912)
University Society, New York · New York: University Society · leaf 156
mple explanation of dirigible is con-tained in the word steerable. The dirigible aeronaut or navigator. It is just as much of aballoon as those which rose above the earth inthe days when the great bags were driven hereand there before the air-currents, and a man whochanced to be in the basket or… … TWO AIR-SHIPS STARTING FOR A RACE. balloon, which is what most people mean whenthey say air-ship, is simply a balloon which canbe directed—its movements guided and controlledso that it travels in the direction desired by the tered. It is usually in the form of a huge cylin-der, narrowing gradually…
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