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 121
ie arrangedthat on the 2nd of March, 17S4. lie should make an ascentin what he still called his flying vessel, which he furnishedwith four wings. Blanchard and his companion, Pesch, a Benedictinepriest, were prevented from going up in the balloon, as io4 WONDERFUL BALLOON ASCENTS. represented in… … Blanchards Balloon. car or boat, wounded Blanchard, cut the rigging, and brokethe oars or wings. The aeronaut was consequently com-pelled to have his machine partly re-fitted in great haste, andin the course of a few hours he mad the ascent alone inthe usual way. Blanchard should have known the…
Balloons · Balloon ascensions
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