Travels in space; a history of aerial navigation (1902)
Valentine, E. Seton, Tomlinson, F. L. · London Hurst and Blackett · leaf 334
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… … KOCXDING THE EIFFEL TOWER. word was given to let go. No fewer than ten times didthe aeronaut traverse the field of Longchamps, then hewent to Puteaux, and then to the Trocadero, where hebroke and repaired on the spot the rudder of hisballoon, circumnavigated the Eiffel Tower, returned toLongchamps,…
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