Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 228
art, goes bobbing through the air, turningthis way and that, until the flame from the fire-balltouches and lights the thin paper, leaving only ahandful of ashes floating upon the summer breeze.The reader can see here illustrated some ofthe objectionable shapes as well as some of the iSSo.] PAPER… … FIG. I.—UNSAFE SHAPES FOR BALLOONS. gores nearly a third longer ; a balloon of thirteengores, each six feet long and one foot greatest width,makes a balloon a little over four feet high. Forsuch a balloon, first make a pattern of stiff brownpaper by which to cut the gores. To make thepattern, take…
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