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 60
oclock the report of a cannon announcedto the multitudes, and to scientific men who were posted onelevations to make observations of the great event, that thegrand moment had come. The cords were withdrawn, and,to the vast delight and wonder of the crowd assembled, theballoon shot up with such… … X o o O SECOND EXPERIMENT. 45 splendid success. The rain that fell damped neither theballoon nor the ardour of the spectators. This balloon was 12 feet in diameter, 38 feet in circum-ference, and had a capacity of 943 cubic feet. The weightof the materials of which it was constructed was 25 lbs.,…
Balloons · Balloon ascensions
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