The conquest of the air; the romance of aerial navigation (1902)
Alexander, John · New York, A. Wessels company · leaf 130
nd the tractionengines and carrier pigeons used in the Italian Army.The Italian war balloon^, unlike ours, are of the sausage type, and they were used in the disastrouscampaign in Erythrea, when Italys colonial aspira-tions were nipped in the bud. In the matter of balloon-signalling some… … BRITISH MILITARY BALLOON READY FOR ASCENT.Photo by Argent Archert Kensington. 128 THE CONQUEST OF THE AIR. enormous mass of men engaged, operating over milesof country, renders it difficult for the general com-manding to convey orders to the whole body of thetroops with anything like simultaneity.…
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