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 31
loon, as one directs a vessel, that also was a delusion;for the whole machine, globes and sails, being freely throwninto the air, would infallibly follow the direction of thewind, whatever that might be. When a ship lies in the sea, *4 WONDERFUL BALLOON ASCENTS. and its sails are inflated with the… … Laiu-vs Flying-machine. sailor can turn within a point of any direction he pleases.But when we are subjected wholly to a single force, andhave no point of support by the use of which to turn thatforce to our own purposes, as is the case with the aeronaut,we are entirely at the mercy of that force,…
Balloons · Balloon ascensions
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