Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 402
discuss in They took the balloon some miles out ofWashington (the professor insisted on this),filled it with a mixture of one third oxygen andtwo thirds hydrogen (a terrible explosive), andsent it up about a quarter of a mile, with ananchor-rope holding it and with a wire hangingdown to a little… … BALLOON-CLOTH BY HUNDREDSOF YARDS. The handle turned, aspark jumpedat the otherend, and the ball of silkseemed to swell enor-mously and then vanishwith a flash of a thou-sand shivers of silk. Onthis came the sound—a smashing and tearingblast louder than anythunder-crash or roarof cannon. It…
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