Travels in space; a history of aerial navigation (1902)
Valentine, E. Seton, Tomlinson, F. L. · London Hurst and Blackett · leaf 328
provide the manoeuvring squadrons withballoons, and also to work out practically the questionof makino- aerial navio-ation a useful branch of theNavy. It seemed certain to aeronauts a few years agothat a balloon could not be driven against the wind,yet one American writer observed, it is just… … A HISTORY OF AERIAL NAVIGx^TION. 311 that we had not yet learned how to use theballoon. The fact is, and it soon grew to be generally recog-nised, that the dirigibility of a balloon depended uponits shape, but principally upon the kind of motor
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