Ferris, Richard. [from old catalog] · New York, T. Nelson and sons · leaf 308
ship, the gas recep-tacle of which was sheet aluminum. It was bracedby aluminum tubes, but while being inflated the in-terior work was so badly broken that it was aban-doned. Schwartz made a second attemnt in Berlin in1897. The airship was safely inflated, and managecf BALLOONS: THE DIRIGIBLE. 307… … Wreck of the Schwartz aluminum airship, at Berhn, in 1897. aged it, and the mob of spectators speedily demol-ished it in the craze for souvenirs of the occasion. In 1898, the young Brazilian, Santos-Dumont,came to Paris imbued with aeronautic zeal, and de-termined to build a dirigible balloon that…
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