Stories of inventors and discoverers in science and the useful arts. A book for old and young (1860)
Timbs, John, 1801-1875 · New York, Harper & Brothers · leaf 110
er-men, who, in attempting to seize the balloon, cut theropes, when it rose and took its course toward the Turk-ish coast. In Scotland, the earliest attempts at aerostation em-anated from a chemist at Edinburgh, Mr. Scott, who, onMarch 12, 1784, let off from Heriots Gardens a balloon,which was… … Tlie first Ascension on Horseback. E 2 106 the EDINBURGH FIRE-BALLOON. By a singular coincidence, on the above day, PhilipAstley, the celebrated horse-rider, and founder of theAmphitheatre, launched an aerostatic globe (or balloon)in St. Georges Fields; it was afterward found at Fa-versham,…
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