Download or read book The Balloon written by The American Aeronautic Society of New York and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Balloon Noteworthy Aerial Voyages from the Discovery of the Balloon to the Present Time With a Narrative of the Aeronautic Experiences of Mr Samuel A King and a Full Description of His Great Captive Balloons and Their Apparatus written by Anon and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 21st century - the age of the budget airline - where quick and reliable air travel is available to a large segment of society, it seems hard to comprehend that it is less than 250 years since the first human took to the skies. Although the wing of the bird seemed like the most obvious natural mechanism to attempt replicate, it was actually contained hot air, as demonstrated by the Montgolfiers and their balloon, that gave birth to the era human aviation. Since the first manned balloon flight in 1783, developments have come thick and fast, the airship, the aeroplane, and finally the space shuttle. This reprint of a classic publication from 1879 contains a wealth of fascinating information on the early history of aviation. Complete with illustrations and a brand new introduction, it covers the adventures of the great aeronauts such as Coxwell and Rozier, and famous ascents like that of the Zenith. This is a wonderful work for anyone with an interest in the technology and events that defined the lighter-than-air period of aeronautics.
Download or read book Aeronautic Americana written by Library of Congress. Division of Aeronautics and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Dictionary of American Biography Jasper Larkin written by and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of an integrated online collection of primary documents, secondary reference sources, and journal articles covering all areas of U.S. history from pre-colonial times to the present day. The DAB records the lives of prominent Americans who died by Dec. 31, 1980.
Download or read book The Balloon written by Samuel Albert King and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book BALLOON NOTEWORTHY AERIAL VOYA written by American Aeronautic Society of New York and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Falling Upwards written by Richard Holmes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)** **Time Magazine 10 Top Nonfiction Books of 2013** **The New Republic Best Books of 2013** In this heart-lifting chronicle, Richard Holmes, author of the best-selling The Age of Wonder, follows the pioneer generation of balloon aeronauts, the daring and enigmatic men and women who risked their lives to take to the air (or fall into the sky). Why they did it, what their contemporaries thought of them, and how their flights revealed the secrets of our planet is a compelling adventure that only Holmes could tell. His accounts of the early Anglo-French balloon rivalries, the crazy firework flights of the beautiful Sophie Blanchard, the long-distance voyages of the American entrepreneur John Wise and French photographer Felix Nadar are dramatic and exhilarating. Holmes documents as well the balloons used to observe the horrors of modern battle during the Civil War (including a flight taken by George Armstrong Custer); the legendary tale of at least sixty-seven manned balloons that escaped from Paris (the first successful civilian airlift in history) during the Prussian siege of 1870-71; the high-altitude exploits of James Glaisher (who rose) seven miles above the earth without oxygen, helping to establish the new science of meteorology); and how Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, and Jules Verne felt the imaginative impact of flight and allowed it to soar in their work. A seamless fusion of history, art, science, biography, and the metaphysics of flights, Falling Upwards explores the interplay between technology and imagination. And through the strange allure of these great balloonists, it offers a masterly portrait of human endeavor, recklessness, and vision. (With 24 pages of color illustrations, and black-and-white illustrations throughout.)
Download or read book A VOYAGE IN A BALLOON written by Jules Verne and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-26 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Ascension at Frankfort—The Balloon, the Gas, the Apparatus, the Ballast—An Unexpected Travelling Companion—Conversation in the Air—Anecdotes—At 800 Metres —The Portfolio of the Pale Young Man—Pictures and Caricatures—Des Rosiers and d’Arlandes—At 1200 Metres—Atmospheric Phenomena—The Philosopher Charles—Systems—Blanchard—Guyton-Morveaux—M. Julien—M. Petin—At 1500 Metres—The Storm—Great Personages in Balloons—The Valve—The Curious Animals—The Aerial Ship—Game of Balloons. In the month of September, 1850, I arrived at Frankfort-on-the-Maine. My passage through the principal cities of Germany, had been brilliantly marked by aerostatic ascensions; but, up to this day, no inhabitant of the Confederation had accompanied me, and the successful experiments at Paris of Messrs. Green, Godard, and Poitevin, had failed to induce the grave Germans to attempt aerial voyages.
Download or read book A Narrative of Two Aerial Voyages written by John Jeffries and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Up in the Clouds written by Robert Michael Ballantyne and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-21 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The germ of the invention of the balloon lies in the discovery of Mr Cavendish, made in 1766, thathydrogen gas, called inflammable air, is at least seven times lighter than atmospheric air. Foundingon this fact, Dr Black of Edinburgh proved by experiment that a very thin bag, filled with this gas, would rise to the ceiling of a room.In Dr Thomson's History of Chemistry, an anecdote, related by Mr Benjamin Bell, refers to this asfollows: -"Soon after the appearance of Mr Cavendish's paper on hydrogen gas, in which he made anapproximation to the specific gravity of that body, showing that it was at least ten times lighter thancommon air, Dr Black invited a party of friends to supper, informing them that he had a curiosity toshow them. Dr Hutton, Mr Clerk of Eldin, and Sir George Clerk of Penicuik, were of the number.When the company invited had arrived, he took them into a room where he had the allantois of acalf filled with hydrogen gas, and, upon setting it at liberty, it immediately ascended and adhered tothe ceiling. The phenomenon was easily accounted for; it was taken for granted that a small blackthread had been attached to the allantois, that the thread passed through the ceiling, and that someone in the apartment above, by pulling the thread, elevated it to the ceiling, and kept it in itsposition! This explanation was so plausible, that it was agreed to by the whole company, though, likemany other plausible theories, it turned out wholly fallacious, for, when the allantois was broughtdown, no thread whatever was found attached to it. Dr Black explained the cause of the ascent tohis admiring friends; but such was his carelessness of his own reputation, that he never gave the leastaccount of this curious experiment even to his class, and several years elapsed before this obviousproperty of hydrogen gas was applied to the elevation of balloons."Cavallo made the first practical attempts with hydrogen gas six years later, but he only succeeded incausing soap-bubbles to ascend.At last the art of aerial navigation was discovered in France, and in 1782 the first ascent was made.The triumph was achieved by Stephen and Joseph Montgolfier, sons of a wealthy paper-maker whodwelt at Annonay, on the banks of a rivulet which flows into the Rhone, not far from Lyon
Download or read book First Things in Acadia written by John W. Regan and published by Halifax, N.S. : First things publishers. This book was released on 1936 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Science Fiction written by Gerry Canavan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first science fiction course in the American academy was held in the early 1950s. In the sixty years since, science fiction has become a recognized and established literary genre with a significant and growing body of scholarship. The Cambridge History of Science Fiction is a landmark volume as the first authoritative history of the genre. Over forty contributors with diverse and complementary specialties present a history of science fiction across national and genre boundaries, and trace its intellectual and creative roots in the philosophical and fantastic narratives of the ancient past. Science fiction as a literary genre is the central focus of the volume, but fundamental to its story is its non-literary cultural manifestations and influence. Coverage thus includes transmedia manifestations as an integral part of the genre's history, including not only short stories and novels, but also film, art, architecture, music, comics, and interactive media.
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