Wonderful Balloon AscentsBALLOONS AND AIR JOURNEYS.Reading editionChapter navigation29 reading sectionsGo to chapterChoose a chapter…A History of Balloons and Balloon VoyagesPREFACEIntroductory materialBALLOONS AND AIR JOURNEYS.Chapter I · Introduction.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.Chapter V · Second Experiment.Chapter VI · Third Experiment.Chapter VII · Fourth Experiment.Chapter VIII · Men and Balloons.Chapter IX · The First Aerial Voyage—Roziers and Arlandes.Chapter X · The Second Arial Voyage.Chapter I · The History of Aerostation from the Year 1783.Chapter II · Experiments and Studies—Blanchard at Paris—Guyton de Morveau at Dijon.Chapter IIIChapter IVChapter 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 AeronauticChapter 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.Advertisements in the back of the book:Previous chapter ←Introductory materialNext chapter →Part 1 — Chapter I · Introduction.All chapters and sections (29)Other sectionsA History of Balloons and Balloon VoyagesPREFACEOpening pagesIntroductory materialOther sectionsBALLOONS AND AIR JOURNEYS.Part 1 · Chapters12345678910Part 2 · Chapters12345678910Part 3 · Chapters1234Part 3 · Other sectionsAdvertisements in the back of the book:28geant (126K)← Introductory materialChapter I. Introduction. →
