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A BALLOON ASCENSION AT MIDNIGHT
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“There is no conquest to which the entire human race aspires more ardently than the Empire of the Air.”
A. Santos-Dumont: The North American Review.
AEROSTATION
M. Etienne Giraud, l’intrépide aéronaute, et M. Georges Hall de San-Francisco, partis de Paris dans le Rolla, out atterri à Cézy, situé à 5 kilomètres de Joigny, après une tranversée de dix heures assez mouvementée, quoique sans accident.
Le Figaro.
A Balloon Ascension at Midnight
BY
GEORGE ELI HALL
WITH SILHOUETTES BY GORDON ROSS
PAUL ELDER AND MORGAN SHEPARD San Francisco 1902
Copyright, 1902 by George Eli Hall
“Upwards of five hundred thousand two-legged animals without feathers lie around us, in horizontal positions; their heads all in night-caps, and full of the foolishest dreams.”
Carlyle: Sartor Resartus.