Wonderful Balloon Ascents
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- Or, The Conquest of the Skies A History of Balloons and Balloon Voyages
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1. A History of Balloons and Balloon Voyages2. PREFACE3. Introductory material4. BALLOONS AND AIR JOURNEYS.5. Chapter I. Introduction.6. Chapter II. Attempts in Ancient Times to Fly in the Air.7. Chapter III. The Theory of Balloons.8. Chapter IV. First Public Trial of the Balloon.9. Chapter V. Second Experiment.10. Chapter VI. Third Experiment.11. Chapter VII. Fourth Experiment.12. Chapter VIII. Men and Balloons.13. Chapter IX. The First Aerial Voyage—Roziers and Arlandes.14. Chapter X. The Second Arial Voyage.15. Chapter I. The History of Aerostation from the Year 1783.16. Chapter II. Experiments and Studies—Blanchard at Paris—Guyton de Morveau at Dijon.17. Chapter III.18. Chapter IV.19. Chapter V. First Aerial Voyage in England—Blanchard Crosses the Sea in a Balloon.20. Chapter VI. Zambeccari’s Perilous Trip Across the Adriatic Sea.21. Chapter VII. Garnerin—Parachutes—Aerostation at Public Fetes.22. Chapter VIII. Green’s Great Journey Across Europe.23. Chapter IX. The “Geant” Balloon.24. Chapter X. The Necrology of Aeronautic25. Chapter I. Experiments of Robertson, Lhoest, Saccarof, &c.26. Chapter II. Ascent of M. Gay-Lussac Alone—Excursions of MM. Barral and Bixio.27. Chapter III. Ascents of the Mssrs. Welsh, Glaisher and Coxwell.28. Chapter IV. Balloons Made Useful in Warfare.29. Advertisements in the back of the book: