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 153
Royal Academy, is the first Englishmanwho ever went up in a balloon. This ascent was madefrom Chelsea on the 16th October, 17S4. The same balloon which Blanchard had used in France i33 WONDERFUL BALLOON ASCENTS. served him on this occasion, with the difference that thehoop which went round the… … Llanchard. with the wings and the helm, were to serve especially thepurpose of steering at will, which he had often said wasquite practicable as soon as a certain elevation hail beenreached. The two aeronauts ascended, having with them a number
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