Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 401
losion as possible, say a thousand feet upin the air. Professor Myers received this com-mission, and proceeded at once to Washingtonwith a gas-balloon twelve feet in diameter. Dont you think that balloon is rathersmall? asked one of the gentlemen. No, said Myers ; I should call it ratherlarge. The… … BALLOONS TUCKED AWAY SNUGLY IN COCOONS. Again, it was kites carrying dynamite. Again,parachutes. Then it was the study of air-cur-rents so as to sail where you please. Then itwas Carlottas scheme of steering a balloon bytipping the foot-board, as I shall presently ex-plain. And for years past it…
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