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 166
prisoner of state in Buda,Hungary. Lalande adds that he went and announced hissuccess at the Institute National, which was assembled atthe time, and which listened to him with the greatestinterest. Robertson conducted an experiment of descending bymeans of a parachute at Vienna, in 1804. in which… … < w zo p; <■55 >o« GARNERIN. 153 Robertson says that on this occasion he yielded to theentreaties of a young man who was his pupil, and hadbegged to be allowed to make his debut before such a greatmultitude. In this case a slight improvement was made inthe parachute. The car was surrounded…
Balloons · Balloon ascensions
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