Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 231
AND STRINGS FOR PARACHUTE. FIG. 6.—THE PASTEBOARD CAR. FIG. 7.—THE PASTEBOARD MEN. aid diagonally across the first paper; on top of to one end of a fuse, from out of a pack of Chinese his the second piece of paper is pasted, inclosing fire-crackers; a few inches from the other end of the stnngs… … UP AND AWAY! fuse is lighted; when it has burned itself away past the point where the upper stringhas been fastened,it of course severs the connec-tion between the parachute andthe balloon, and the parachutedrops, but does not go far, forthe air beneath spreads it out,the weight at the bottom…
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