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Wonderful Balloon Ascents; Or, The Conquest of the Skies
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Fulgence Marion
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and
a
half
years.”
Olivari
perished
at
Orleans
on
the
25th
of
November,
1802.
He
had
ascended
in
a
Montgolfiere
made
of
paper,
strengthened
only
by
some
bands
of
cloth.
His
car,
made
of
osiers,
and
loaded
with
combustible
matter,
was
suspended
below
the
grating;
and
when
at
a
great
elevation
it
became
the
prey
of
the
flames.
The
aeronaut,
thus
deprived
of
his
support,
fell,
at
the
distance
of
a
league
from
the
spot
from
which
he
had
risen.
Mosment
made
his
last
ascent
at
Lille
on
the
7th
of
April,
1806.
His
balloon
was
made
of
silk,
and
was
filled
with
hydrogen
gas.
Ten
minutes
after
his
departure
he
threw
into
the
air
a
parachute
with
which
he
had
provided
himself.
It
is
supposed
that
the
oscillations
consequent
on
the
throwing
off
of
the
parachute
were
the
cause
of
they
aeronaut’s
fall.
Some
pretend
that
Mosment
had
foretold
his
death,
and
that
it
was
caused
by
a
willful
carelessness.
However
this
may
be,
the
balloon
continued
its
flight
alone,
and
the
body
of
the
aeronaut
was
found
partly
buried
in
the
sand
of
the
fosse
which
surrounds
the
town.
Bittorff
made
a
great
many
successful
ascents.
He
never
used
any
machine
but
the
Montgolfiere.
At
Manheim,
on
the
17th
of
July,
the
day
of
his
death
his
balloon,
which
was
of
paper,
sixteen
metres
in
diameter,
and
twenty
in
height,
took
fire
in
the
air,
and
the
aeronaut
was
thrown
down
upon
the
town.
His
fall
was
mortal.
Harris,
an
old
officer
of
the
English
navy,
together
with
another
English
aeronaut,
named
Graham,
had
made
a
great
many
ascents.
He
conceived
the
idea
of
constructing
a
balloon
upon
an
original
plan;
but
his
alterations
do
not
seem
to
have
been
improvements.
In
May,
1824,
he
attempted
an
ascent
from
London,
which
had
much
apparent
success,
but
which
terminated
fatally.
When
at
a
great
elevation,
it
seems,
the
aeronaut,
wishing
to
descend,
opened
the
valve.
It
had
not
been
well
constructed,
and
after
being
opened
it
would
not
close
again.
The
consequent
loss
of
gas
brought
the
balloon
down
with
great
force.
Harris
lost
his
life
with
the
fall;
but
the
young
lady
who
had
accompanied
him
received
only
a
trifling
wound.
Sadler,
a
celebrated
English
aeronaut,
who,
in
one
of
his
many
experiments,
had
crossed
the
Irish
Channel
between
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