Wonderful ballon ascents : or, The conquest of the skies. A history of balloons and balloon voyages (1870)
Marion, Fulgence · New York : Cassell Petter & Galpin · leaf 111
e the earthfor barely fifteen minutes. The descent only occupied two or three minutes, andyet the shock was supportable. It was observed that assoon as the machine had touched the earth all the clothbecame unfolded in a few seconds, which seemed to con- 94 WONDERFUL CAI.I.OON ASCENTS. firm the… … I.e Flessellcs. On the day of the ascent, the opera of Iphigenia inAulis was given, and the theatre was thronged by a vastassemblage, attracted thither in the hope of seeing the THE OPEN ROUTE. 95 illustrious experimentalists. The curtain had risen whenM. and Madame de Flesselles entered their box,…
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