Wonderful Balloon Ascents; Or, The Conquest of the Skies. Fulgence Marion
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Fulgence Marion
Wonderful Balloon Ascents; Or, The Conquest of the Skies
A History of Balloons and Balloon Voyages
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066245498
Table of Contents
PART I. THE CONQUEST OF THE SKIES.—1783.
Chapter II. Attempts in Ancient Times to Fly in the Air.
Chapter III. The Theory of Balloons.
Chapter IV. First Public Trial of the Balloon.
(Montgolfier’s Balloon Annonay, 5th of June of 1783.)
(Charles’s Balloon, Paris, Champ de Mars, 27th of August, 1783.)
(Montgolfier’s Balloon, Paris, Faubourg St. Antoine.)
Chapter VII. Fourth Experiment.
(Versailles, 19th September, 1783, in presence of Louis of XVI.)
Chapter VIII. Men and Balloons.
Chapter IX. The First Aerial Voyage—Roziers and Arlandes.
Chapter X. The Second Arial Voyage.
(1st December 1783.—Charles and Robert at the Tuileries.)
Chapter I. The History of Aerostation from the Year 1783.
Chapter II. Experiments and Studies—Blanchard at Paris—Guyton de Morveau at Dijon.
Chapter V. First Aerial Voyage in England—Blanchard Crosses the Sea in a Balloon.
Chapter VI. Zambeccari’s Perilous Trip Across the Adriatic Sea.
Chapter VII. Garnerin—Parachutes—Aerostation at Public Fetes.
Chapter VIII. Green’s Great Journey Across Europe.
Chapter IX. The “Geant” Balloon.
Chapter X. The Necrology of Aeronautic
PART III. Scientific Experiments—Applications of Ballooning.
Chapter I. Experiments of Robertson, Lhoest, Saccarof, &c.
Chapter II. Ascent of M. Gay-Lussac Alone—Excursions of MM. Barral and Bixio.
Chapter III. Ascents of the Mssrs. Welsh, Glaisher and Coxwell.
Chapter IV. Balloons Made Useful in Warfare.
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PREFACE
“Let posterity know, and knowing be astonished, that on the fifteenth day of September, 1784, Vincent Lunardi of Lucca, in Tuscany, the first aerial traveller in Britain, mounting from the Artillery Ground in London, and traversing the regions of the air for two hours and fifteen minutes, on this spot revisited the earth. In this rude monument for ages be recorded this wondrous enterprise successfully achieved by the powers of chemistry and the fortitude of man, this improvement in science which the great Author of all Knowledge, patronising by his Providence the inventions of mankind, hath graciously permitted, to their benefit and his own eternal glory.”
The stone upon which the above inscription was carved, stands, or stood recently, near Collier’s End, in the parish of Standon, Hertfordshire; and it will possibly afford the English reader a more accurate idea of the feelings with which the world hailed the discovery of the balloon than any incident or illustration drawn from the annals of a foreign country.
The work which we now introduce to our readers does not exaggerate the case when it declares that no discovery of