Ferris, Richard. [from old catalog] · New York, T. Nelson and sons · leaf 305
Sketch of the De Lome airship. 804 BALLOONS: THE DIRIGIBLE. ord as Giffards steam-driven airship—six miles anhour. In 1881^ the brothers Albert and Gaston Tissan-dier exhibited at the Electrical Exhibition in Paris … Car of the Tissandier dirigible; driven by electricity. a model of an electrically driven airship, originallydesigned to establish communication with Paris dur-ing the siege of the Franco-Prussian War. In 1883,the airship built after this model v^as tried. It was92 feet long, and 30 feet at its…
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