INDEX.
Reading edition
No. Page.
1 Introduction 1
2 History and Fable 2
3 Discovery of the Balloon 7
4 Noted Air Voyages 8
5 Absence of Danger 11
6 Charm of Ærial Travel 12
7 Ærial Voyages Health Promoting 15
8 Parachutes 16
9 The Kite 17
10 Balloons Impracticable 18
11 Reasons why the Problem has remained Unsolved 21
12 Fundamental Principles in Flight 23
13 Weight 24
14 Surface 26
15 Power 28
16 Flying Creatures, their Proportions, Movements 31
17 Mechanical Practicability of Flight 34
18 Flying Machines of the Present, their defects 37
19 The Practical Air Ship of the near Future 43
20 What Ærostation will Accomplish 48
21 Closing Remarks 50
ERRATA.
Page 4, line 4, read "one from Kœnigsberg," for "Kœnigsberg."
Page 4, line 18, read "afterward," for "ago."