The conquest of the air; the romance of aerial navigation (1902)
Alexander, John · New York, A. Wessels company · leaf 120
observers in the car. On the other hand, it mustb: noted that Messrs. Mears, the well-known bell-founders, record the fact that the tenor bell of thepeal of St. Bees, on the coast of Cumberland, hasbeen heard at the top of Scafell Pikes, sixteen milesdistant in a straight line. Mr. Bacon has also… … CAILETET S APPARATUS FOR BREATHING AT GREAT ALTITUDES. work, and quite recently a Frenchman, named Cailetet,has invented a device for supplying the aeronautwith the needful oxygen in a more convenient waythan the old-fashioned plan of inhaling it througha tube. His contrivance may yet prove of…
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