Travels in space; a history of aerial navigation (1902)
Valentine, E. Seton, Tomlinson, F. L. · London Hurst and Blackett · leaf 204
of seeing anything, he was up engaged on hisobservations ; under him was a captain of infantry, whohad been instructed previously at West Point (theAmerican Woolwich) in the art of ballooning. Thecaptain commanded the men, some 50 in number,attached to the machine, and superintended generallyevery… … wiiSiilMilBlfN A HISTORY OF AERIAL NAVIGATION. 187 that he Hked the work below best, and confined himselfentirely to it. Under the captain were a proportion ofnon-commissioned officers, who knew more or less ofthe management of it, and the men who, besides havinga sort of reverential awe of the…
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