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Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3382140217
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (821 download)
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Author : James Glaisher
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Total Pages : 472 pages
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Download or read book Travels in the Air written by James Glaisher and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Alexander
Publisher : General Books
ISBN 13 : 9781458977144
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (771 download)
Download or read book The Conquest of the Air written by John Alexander and published by General Books. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Achievements of Recent and Living Balloonists?Flammarion, Tissandier, and de Fonvielle?Andree, the Adriatic, and the North Pole?Rev. J. M. Bacon, Perceval and Stanley Spencer, Count de la Vaulx, etc.?-The latest Channel Passage. We come now to the achievements of recent and living aeronauts, and among these the names of Camille Flammarion, the celebrated French astronomer, Gaston Tissandier, who, in 1883, was thought to have partially solved the problem of steering a balloon, and W. de Fonvielle are most distinguished. The exploits of Sefior Santos-Dumont are left for more particular treatment further on. As with Glaisher, the impulse of the three famous Frenchmen just named was mainly scientific, but they have all come under the fascination of a pursuit which is perhaps the most romantic left to man. M. Flammarion expresses his feelings in this impassioned address to his balloon as it lay formless in its shed before inflation: Inert and formless thing, that I can now trample under my feet, that I can tear with my hands, here stretched dead upon the ground, my perfect slave, I am about to give thee life that thou inayest become my sovereign. In the height ofmy generosity I shall make thee even greater than myself. O vile and powerless thing . I shall abandon myself to thy majesty, O creature of my own hands and thou shalt carry me beyond my kingdom into thy own element, which I have created for thee; thou shalt fly off to the regions of storms and tempests, and I shall be forced to follow thee. I shall become thy plaything; thou shalt do what thou wilt with me, and forget that I gave thee life.. . . Perchance thou wilt deprive me of my existence and leave my corpse floating in the hurricane above, until thy perfidy, fatigued by its own exertions, s...
Author : Camille Flammarion James Glaisher
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
ISBN 13 : 9780344540660
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Travels in the Air written by Camille Flammarion James Glaisher and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : James Glaisher
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ISBN 13 : 9781332619634
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (196 download)
Download or read book Travels in the Air (Classic Reprint) written by James Glaisher and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-22 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Travels in the Air A Second Edition enables me to speak concerning the use of the balloon during the siege of Paris. When I laid down my pen a few months ago, I little thought that a new chapter was about to be added to the History of Aerostation, and that the time when the balloon would take its place as a necessary means of communication was so near at hand. Although, in common with my colleagues, I had long hoped to see more attention paid to the improvement of aerial navigation, still it is painful to reflect that the stimulus has been afforded by the misfortunes of France. I had long felt satisfied that the balloon could be used with great advantage to explore the ocean overhead. As a philosophical instrument, although rude, costly, and most unmanageable, it had so many good points about it, that I was hopeful - as will be seen from the narratives in the body of the work - that its use would be attended with varied and important benefits to science. But an invention, however beautiful or interesting, unless it commends itself to some definitely expressed interest, or fulfils a purpose generally understood, is apt to languish. The balloon is a case in point. The necessity of exploring the aerial ocean, and seeking within its depths for the causes of atmospheric phenomena, has never yet been generally recognized. Situated at the lower confines of the atmosphere, we are limited in our observation of forces which, expended upon the earth, are conceived and regulated above. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Author : Wilfrid Fonvielle
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
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Download or read book Adventures in the Air written by Wilfrid Fonvielle and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hermann Masius
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Luftreisen von J. Glaisher, C. Flammarion, W. v. Fonvielle und G. Tissandier written by Hermann Masius and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Glaisher
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Total Pages : 676 pages
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Download or read book Voyages aériens written by James Glaisher and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. M. Bacon
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230147536
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (475 download)
Download or read book The Dominion of the Air the Story of Aerial Navigation written by J. M. Bacon and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ...an altitude of some 19,000 feet was attained. At one time needles of ice were encountered, settling abundantly with a crackling sound upon their notebooks. But the most remarkable observation made during this voyage related to an extraordinary fall of temperature which, as recorded, is without parallel. It took place in a cloud mass, 15,000 feet thick, and amounted to a drop of from 150 to =39. In 1867 M. C. Flammarion made a few balloon ascents, ostensibly for scientific research. His account of these, translated by Dr. T. L. Phipson, is edited by Mr. Glaisher, and many of the experiences he relates will be found to contrast with those of others. His physical symptoms alone were remarkable, for on one occasion, at an altitude of apparently little over 10,000 feet, he became unwell, being affected with a sensation of drowsiness, palpitation, shortness of breath, and singing in the ears, which, after landing gave place to a " fit of incessant gaping," while he states that in later voyages, at but slightly greater altitudes, his throat and lungs became affected, and he was troubled with presence of blood upon the lips. This draws forth a footnote from Mr. Glaisher, which should be commended to all would-be sky voyagers. It runs thus: --" I have never experienced any of these effects till I had long passed the heights reached by M. Flammarion, and at no elevation was there the presence of blood." However, M. Flammarion adduces, at least, one reassuring fact, which will be read with interest. Once, having, against the entreaties of his friends, ascended with an attack of influenza upon him, he came down to earth again an hour or two afterwards with this troublesome complaint completely cured. It would seem as if the soil of France supplied the...
Author : Wilfrid Fonvielle
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ISBN 13 : 9781017543896
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Adventures in the Air: Being Memorable Experiences of Great Aeronauts written by Wilfrid Fonvielle and published by . This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wilfrid de Fonvielle
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333304218
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Adventures in the Air written by Wilfrid de Fonvielle and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-21 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Adventures in the Air: Being Memorable Experiences of Great Aeronauts The Translator thinks it due to the Author to state, that in this English edition several passages likely to interest only French readers have been omitted, and several additions made bearing mainly on the history of ballooning in England. The whole has, moreover, been carefully revised by both Author and Translator, the former having added some further details, bringing the work down to the present date. A few new illustrations have also been added, and in its present form it is hoped that the work will afford pleasure to both young and old, and lead the former especially to take an interest in those sciences on which aeronautics is based. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
