Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 1033
hich small hooks werebent to hold the parachutes. Six inches abovethis hoop a smaller one, three inches in dia-meter, was braced with wires, and two or threefine wires were drawn across this hoop to form the men, both of which were cut from a singlepiece of cardboard and painted. Four of these… … DIAGRAM OF DETAILS. a basket in which a cotton wad rested, as shownin Fig. 2. The cotton was saturated with wood alcohol,and after the balloon had been inflated with hotair, the waxed string hanging down from thecotton was lighted, and the fire creeping upthe string ignited the alcohol on the…
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