The conquest of the air; the romance of aerial navigation (1902)
Alexander, John · New York, A. Wessels company · leaf 145
ng, thirty-eight feet in diameter,within which are enclosed seventeen separate balloons, 142 THE CONQUEST OF THE AIR. each independent of the other, the total capacitybeing 14,780 cubic yards. Suspended from thismonster ahiminium vessel are two small cars aboutten feet long of the same metal, both… … THE ZEPPELIN AIRSHIP OVER LAKE CONSTANCE, JULY 2ND, I9OO. bottoms of the cars are tanks containing water whichis used for ballast, and they are connected with aspeaking-tube, so that the occupants of the one canfollow instructions from the other. There are twomotors—one in each car—capable of…
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