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id: 16085
title: A Voyage in a Balloon (1852)
author: Verne, Jules
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  the balloon, rising and falling, ballast); use of dialogue to convey My Ascension at Frankfort--The Balloon, the Gas, the Apparatus, the 1500 Metres--The Storm--Great Personages in Balloons--The Valve--The The balloon slowly ascended; but I experienced a shock which threw me to The balloon, after having risen, remained stationary; the unknown orifice of the balloon; when the voyagers wished to ascend, they threw, machine, and the air, growing warmer, gave to the balloon a new when the balloon is too full, or when one wishes to descend; the car, M. Petin placed four balloons, filled with hydrogen, in northeast wind, their balloon was filled with gas on the Dover side; balloon continued to descend. balloon, relieved, will re-ascend!''--'' No, no, it is frightful.'' The To his balloon, inflated with gas, Harris ascended in a balloon of the gas; the balloon continued to ascend! The balloon ascended In a twinkling the balloon ascended to an immeasurable height!


id: 21708
title: Up in the Clouds: Balloon Voyages
author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
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  It is well known that balloons, filled with appropriate gas, will rise. prevent a man making two balloons, flattish, and in the form of wings, to that period in the history of balloon voyaging, or aeronautics, when The great success of the Montgolfier balloons naturally threw the balloon constructed by Monsieur Robert, which was filled with hydrogen. As the balloon has a car hung beneath it, so in like manner balloon is full, and that the gas is coming out from the safety-valve. ACCOUNT OF NADAR''S BALLOON, "LE GEANT." FIRST ASCENT. Such was the giant balloon in which Monsieur Nadar and his friends made "Interesting details of the ascent of the Nadar balloon, said to have SECOND ASCENT OF NADAR''S "GIANT" BALLOON. air by means of balloons, so they were the first to set the example of has several times exploded his balloons while in the air, to show that


id: 861
title: The Dominion of the Air: The Story of Aerial Navigation
author: Bacon, John M. (John Mackenzie)
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  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


id: 36252
author: Rotch, Abbott Lawrence
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  Temperatures observed in Four High Balloon Ascents 91 Changes with Height recorded by Kites at Blue Hill 155 with the height attained by the Blue Hill kites, to be described found from the kite-observations at Blue Hill, that up to the height clouds indicate the direction and velocity of the air at different may be no clouds at all, in which case balloons or kites will aid us clouds at different heights, have been made at Blue Hill several times the height of a mile the mean decrease of temperature in the day-time with height observed during the four highest balloon ascents in Europe are utilized in the measurements of cloud-heights at Blue Hill. atmospheric pressure, air temperature, and relative humidity, was air up to heights of at least 12,000 feet whenever there is wind, but of temperature with height, so that the air at altitudes of from 300

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  Sounding the Ocean of Air Being Six Lectures Delivered Before the Lowell Institute of Boston, in December 1898


id: 48313
title: Phaeton Rogers: A Novel of Boy Life
author: Johnson, Rossiter
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  "He looks to me like a very kicky horse," said Ned; "and I wouldn''t "But none of us have been used to riding that way," said Ned. Without replying, his uncle folded a blanket, laid it on the horse''s "You walk on the nigh side," said Phaeton to me, "and let Ned take the "I haven''t got any money with me," said Phaeton; "but I know a short "I think I like that way best," said Ned. "I don''t know anybody better than Jack-in-the-Box," said Ned. "All right," said Ned, for in these things he was a wise boy, and a "I''m afraid the invention doesn''t look practical to you," said Ned. Before Jack could answer, Isaac Holman appeared at the door of the box, "Good gracious, Ned!" said Phaeton, "why did you print this thing "You''re the very boy--I mean man--I wanted to see," said Ned, running


id: 43809
title: Benjamin Franklin and the First Balloons
author: Franklin, Benjamin
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  The documents which I publish are copies of Franklin''s letters, made on thin paper in a copying press (probably the rotary machine invented of the letters appear in Sparks'' edition of Franklin''s Works, and that he printed one letter from my copy, and he noted how the other paragraphs, capital letters or the old spelling,[2] Smyth follows the after the Fireworks we had a Balloon of about 5 feet Diameter filled This Method of filling the Balloon with hot Air is cheap and This Balloon of only 26 feet diameter being filled with Air ten times Charles & Robert''s Experiment, which was to have been made at this Day, the other press-copies and the letters as printed by Bigelow and Smyth "A hot air balloon carrying animals", as there is one in every "A hot air balloon carrying animals", as there is one in every


