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Wonderful Balloon Ascents; Or, The Conquest of the Skies
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Fulgence Marion
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At
the
same
time,
Montgolfier
was
busy
constructing,
at
the
request
of
the
Academy
of
Sciences,
a
balloon
seventy
feet
high
and
forty
in
diameter,
with
which
it
was
proposed
to
repeat
the
experiment
of
Annonay.
He
took
up
his
quarters
in
the
magnificent
gardens
of
his
friend
Reveillon,
proprietor
of
the
royal
manufactory
of
stained
paper
in
the
Faubourg
St.
Antoine.
The
new
balloon
was
of
a
very
singular
shape:
the
upper
part
represented
a
prism,
twenty-four
feet
high
the
top
was
a
pyramid
of
the
same
height;
the
lower
part
was
a
truncated
cone,
twenty
feet
in
depth.
It
was
made
of
packing-cloth,
lined
with
good
paper,
both
inside
and
out.
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