A voyage in space; a course of six lectures "adapted to a juvenile auditory" delivered at the Royal Institution at Xmas 1913 (1915)
Turner, Herbert Hall, 1861-1930 · London Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge · leaf 88
rd isabout four miles, sothat the first layer isalso that of aeroplanes.A kite has been up alittle higher than that. And a man in a balloonhas actually been just into the second layer,but only just. So that our human experience ofthe air is practically confined to the first layer,and we knew… … IMAGINARY LAYERS OF ATMOSPHEREFig. 20. 68 A VOYAGE IN SPACE though larger. There is one hung up near the roof;perhaps we can get it down at the end of the lecture.These balloons do not carry men, they only carryapparatus; but this apparatus is so skilfully madethat it brings down for us information…
Astronomy -- Juvenile literature
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