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 33
, with their im-possible flying-machines, the inventor of the balloon couldderive no benefit whatever; nor is his fame to be in theleast diminished because many had laboured in the same i6 WONDERFUL BALLOON ASCENTS. field before him. Nor can the story of the ovoador, or flyingman, a legend very… … Laurent de Guzmans Balloon. raising himself in a balloon to a considerable height. Otherversions of the story give a different date, and assign thepretended ascent to 1709. The above engraving, ex-tracted from the Bibliothequc de la Rue de Richelieu, isan exact copy of Guzmans supposed balloon. In…
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