id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 861 Bacon, John M. (John Mackenzie) The Dominion of the Air: The Story of Aerial Navigation .txt text/plain 90468 3431 63 later at Lyons, when a mammoth balloon, 130 feet in height and lifting aeronaut took flight from Paris in a small hydrogen balloon only would make an ascent with a hot air balloon in some gardens near Chelsea Ascending in a hydrogen balloon to the height of about 2,000 feet, the exploration of the air by balloon ascents organised with fitting The chief danger attending a balloon journey in a high wind, supposing balloon is to be 100 feet in diameter, giving it a net ascending power cause a large balloon to ascend through ninety feet, it may be pointed took the balloon a height of 3,000 feet in three minutes' space, and a balloon of only some 26,000 cubic feet capacity and reached earth at Ascending at 11.30 a.m. under a warm sun, the balloon had by 1 p.m. reached an altitude of 16,000 feet, when the external air was at ./cache/861.txt ./txt/861.txt