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 114
terrific thunder-storm, but descended at sunrise un-injured, seventy miles from Paris. About this time attempts were made to render aeros- BALLOONS IN MILITARY OPERATIONS. 109 tation useful in military operations. A captive balloonwas held attached to a cord of sufficient length, so thata person… … The French Academys Balloon. Aerostatic Institute in the Polytechnic School, and in-trusted to the command of experienced officers, was dis-tributed to each of the Republican armies. The deci-sive victory which General Jourdan gained in June, 1794,over the Austrians at Fleurus, has been ascribed…
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