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Book Synopsis Wonderful Balloon Ascents by : Camille Flammarion
Download or read book Wonderful Balloon Ascents written by Camille Flammarion and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wonderful Balloon Ascents" is a historical novel looking back at the historical voyages made possible by balloon travel. Author Camille Flammarion states that, "The discovery or the invention of the balloon was one of those efforts of genius and enterprise which have no infancy. It had reached its full growth when it burst upon the world, and the ninety (at the time of the book's writing) years which have since elapsed have witnessed no development of the original idea. The balloon of to-day—the balloon in which Coxwell and Glaisher have made their perilous trips into the remote regions of the air—is in almost every respect the same as the balloon with which "the physician Charles," following in the footsteps of the Montgolfiers, astonished Paris in 1783. There are few more tantalising stories in the annals of invention than this."
Book Synopsis Wonderful Balloon Ascents by : Fulgence Marion
Download or read book Wonderful Balloon Ascents written by Fulgence Marion and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Wonderful Balloon Ascents; Or, The Conquest of the Skies by : Fulgence Marion
Download or read book Wonderful Balloon Ascents; Or, The Conquest of the Skies written by Fulgence Marion and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fulgence Marion's 'Wonderful Balloon Ascents; Or, The Conquest of the Skies' is a historical account of the development of hot air balloons and their voyages, particularly focusing on the Montgolfier brothers and Vincent Lunardi. Marion reveals how the discovery of the balloon had an extraordinary impact on the people of Europe, arousing enthusiasm, excitement, and hope for new vistas of enterprise and research. However, the practical uses of balloons for travel did not come to fruition. Instead, the balloon served as a vehicle for daring aeronauts who fearlessly pushed the boundaries of human enterprise, sometimes with tragic consequences. Despite the balloon's limited usefulness, Marion shows how its invention had a profound impact on the history of human enterprise and scientific achievement.
Book Synopsis Wonderful balloon ascents; or, The conquest of the skies. From the Fr by : Fulgence Marion
Download or read book Wonderful balloon ascents; or, The conquest of the skies. From the Fr written by Fulgence Marion and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis WONDERFUL BALLONN ASCENTS: OR, The Conquest of the Skies. A HISTORY OF BALLONS VOYAGES. by :
Download or read book WONDERFUL BALLONN ASCENTS: OR, The Conquest of the Skies. A HISTORY OF BALLONS VOYAGES. written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book BALLOON ASCENTS written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Wonderful Balloon Ascents ... From the French of F. Marion by : F. Marion
Download or read book Wonderful Balloon Ascents ... From the French of F. Marion written by F. Marion and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Wonderful Balloon Ascents by : Fulgence Marion
Download or read book Wonderful Balloon Ascents written by Fulgence Marion and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections by :
Download or read book Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bibliography of Aeronautics by : Paul Brockett
Download or read book Bibliography of Aeronautics written by Paul Brockett and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sky Sailors written by David L. Bristow and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a century before airplanes, people explored the sky in balloons. From 1783 to the early 1900s, aeronauts flew into storms, crossed large bodies of water, sailed over enemy armies, and soared to deadly altitudes. Illustrated in full color with dramatuc period artwork, Sky Sailors by David L. Bristow presents the stories of the pioneers of human flight, such as daredevil Sophie Blanchard from Napoleon's France, and Salomon Andree, who lead an aerial assault on the North Pole in 1897.
Book Synopsis Imagining the Arctic by : Huw Lewis-Jones
Download or read book Imagining the Arctic written by Huw Lewis-Jones and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-13 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagining the Arctic explores the culture and politics of polar exploration and the making of its heroes. Leading explorers, the celebrity figures of their day, went to great lengths to convince their contemporaries of the merits of polar voyages. Much of exploration was in fact theatre: a series of performances to capture public attention and persuade governments to finance ambitious proposals. The achievements of explorers were promoted, celebrated, and manipulated, whilst explorers themselves became the subject of huge attention. Huw Lewis-Jones draws upon recovered texts and striking images, many reproduced for the first time since the nineteenth century, to show how exploration was projected through a series of spectacular visuals, helping us to reconstruct the ways that heroes and the wilderness were imagined. Elegantly written and richly illustrated, Imagining the Arctic offers original insights into our understanding of exploration and its pull on the public imagination.
Book Synopsis The world of wonders: a record of things wonderful in nature, science and art. [Publ. in pts. With] Correspondence [publ. in 11 suppls. Wanting the wrappers]. by : World
Download or read book The world of wonders: a record of things wonderful in nature, science and art. [Publ. in pts. With] Correspondence [publ. in 11 suppls. Wanting the wrappers]. written by World and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Monthly Bulletin by : St. Louis Public Library
Download or read book Monthly Bulletin written by St. Louis Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Teachers' bulletin", vol. 4- issued as part of v. 23, no. 9-
Book Synopsis Monthly Bulletin. New Series by : St. Louis Public Library
Download or read book Monthly Bulletin. New Series written by St. Louis Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Balloons and Airships by : Anthony Burton
Download or read book Balloons and Airships written by Anthony Burton and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Looks at the brave (and sometimes foolish) men and women who were responsible for . . . the development of manned flight” (History of War). This book tells the often dramatic and always fascinating story of flight in lighter than air machines. For centuries man had dreamed of flying, but all attempts failed, until in 1782 the Montgolfier brothers constructed the world’s first hot air balloon. The following year saw the first ascent with aeronauts—not human beings but a sheep, a duck and a cockerel. But it was not long before men and women too took to the air and became ever more adventurous. In the 19th century, balloons found a new role in the military. But their use was always limited by the fact that they were at the mercy of the wind. There were numerous attempts at steering balloons, and various attempts were made to power them but it was the arrival of the internal combustion engine that saw the balloon transformed into the airship. The most famous developer of airships was Graf von Zeppelin, and the book tells the story of the use of his airships in both peacetime and at war. There were epic adventures including flights over the poles and for a time, commercial airships flourished—then came the disaster of the Hindenburg. Airships still fly today and ballooning has become a hugely popular pastime. “Entertaining and informative . . . a series of interesting snapshots, giving a flavor of these challenging and daring exploits.” —Flying in Ireland “Absolutely enthralling.” —Books Monthly
Book Synopsis From Kites to Cold War by : Tyler W Morton
Download or read book From Kites to Cold War written by Tyler W Morton and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Kites to Cold War tells the story of the evolution of manned airborne reconnaissance. Long a desire of military commanders, the ability to see the terrain ahead and gain foreknowledge of enemy intent was realized when Chinese airmen mounted kites to surveil their surroundings. Kite technology was slow to spread, and by the late nineteenth century European nations had developed the balloon and airship to conduct this mission. By 1918, it was obvious that the airplane had become the reconnaissance platform of the future. Used successfully by many nations during the Great War, aircraft technology and capability experienced its most rapid evolutionary period during World War II. Entering the war with just basic airborne imagery capabilities, by V-E and V-J days, air power pioneers greatly improved imagery collection and developed sophisticated airborne signals intelligence collection capabilities. The United States and other nations put these capabilities to use as the Cold War immediately followed. Flying near the periphery of and sometimes directly over the Soviet Union, airborne reconnaissance provided the intelligence necessary to stay one step ahead of the Soviets throughout the Cold War.