Travels in space; a history of aerial navigation (1902)
Valentine, E. Seton, Tomlinson, F. L. · London Hurst and Blackett · leaf 168
nd had thus arrived at a thoroughly practicalappreciation of the necessary conditions. Abandoningthe globular shape, as offering too much resistance,and following the analogy of a marine vessel heconstructed an oblong pointed balloon, to the sternof which he attached a rudder. In the car he… … A HISTORY OF AERIAL NAVIGATION. 151 tained 88,000 cubic feet, and was filled with coal gas.The engine was three-horse power, weighing 3 cwt.,and turning the screw no revolutions per minute.It seemed rather a daring thing to put the furnaceof a steam engine so near to a huge reservoir ofhighly…
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