Travels in space; a history of aerial navigation (1902)
Valentine, E. Seton, Tomlinson, F. L. · London Hurst and Blackett · leaf 332
ts inventor sacrificed comfort tolightness, directing the movements of the machine froma frail bamboo saddle in bicycle fashion, wholly doingaway with the car. In this equipage he embarkedupon a series of almost daily experiments. An un-toward accident caused the destruction of still anotherballoon… … AFTER AX ACCIDEXT: THE RESCUE. A HISTORY OF AERIAL NAVIGATION. 315 Dumont and his experiments obtained universal re-nown. On the former date the balloon, held by ropes,rose a few feet from the Park of Aerostation, with theinventor and proprietor in the car. The limits of thepark were instantly…
Aeronautics
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