The conquest of the air; the romance of aerial navigation (1902)
Alexander, John · New York, A. Wessels company · leaf 132
oment, so that they hesitated,undecided. Mountains, which they could not scale, GERIMAN MILITARY EXPERIMENT. 129 hid the fleet of the enemy. If they had been inpossession of a balloon, instead of remaining in forcedinaction, they might, knowingtheir adversarys position, sure ofhis retreat, have… … BALLOON-SIGNALLING IN THE FRENCH ARMY. SIGNAL TO *CEASEFIRING. year, over Lake Constance, giving themselves up tothe most expensive kind of experiments with an 9 130 THE CONQUEST OF THE AIR. automobile balloon, which, had it turned out a suc-cess, instead of a failure, might have come…
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