Ferris, Richard. [from old catalog] · New York, T. Nelson and sons · leaf 309
hed 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 w^ould sur-pass the former achievements of Giffard and Re-nard, which he felt confident w^ere but hints of… … BALLOONS: THE DIRIGIBLE. 309 made use of the air-bag suggested by Meusnier forthe balloon of the Duke of Chartres in 1784, al-though in an original way, at first using a pneumaticpump to inflate it^ and later a rotatory fan. l^eitherprevented the gas-bag from buckling and coming
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