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Wonderful Balloon Ascents; Or, The Conquest of the Skies
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Fulgence Marion
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single
object
“balloons
and
their
history,”
we
would
have
devoted
a
chapter
to
the
numerous
attempts
made
to
steer
balloons.
We
shall
only
say
here
that
aerial
navigation
should
be
divided
into
two
kinds
with
balloons,
and
without
balloons.
In
the
first
case,
it
is
limited
to
the
study
of
aerial
currents,
and
to
the
art
of
rising
to
those
currents
which
suit
the
direction
of
the
voyage
undertaken.
The
balloon
is
not
the
master
of
the
atmosphere;
on
the
contrary,
it
is
its
powerless
slave.
In
the
second
case,
the
discovery
of
Montgolfier
is
useless;
and
the
question
is,
to
find
out
a
new
machine
capable
of
flying
in
the
air,
and
at
the
same
time
heavier
than
the
air.
Birds
are,
without
doubt,
the
best
models
to
study.
But
with
what
force
shall
we
replace
LIFE?
The
air-boat
of
M.
Pline
seems
to
us
one
of
the
best
ideas;
but
the
working
of
it
presents
many
difficulties.
Let
us
find
a
motive
power
at
once
light
and
powerful
(aluminium
and
electricity,
for
example),
and
we
will
have
definitively
conquered
the
empire
of
the
air.
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