Travels in space; a history of aerial navigation (1902)
Valentine, E. Seton, Tomlinson, F. L. · London Hurst and Blackett · leaf 262
bove them. Byrunning the machine along and observing the angleof contact with either set of rails, the requiredinclination of the aeroplane w^ould thus be ascer-tained before the apparatus rose in the air. A trial of this machine led Mr. Maxim to makefurther improvements and so, two years later, to… … SAXTOS DUMONTS DIRIGIBLE BALLOON : A TRITUIPHAL ESCORT. i6* A HISTORY OF AERIAL NAVIGATION. 245 for New York. It held 160,000 cubic feet ofilluminating gas, and was in charge of Mr. Moore,who was accompanied by Professor Hazen, themeteorologist. Unfortunately, although 25,000 per-sons had assembled…
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