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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: inflammable air, through the pores of a paper bag. By making the bag large enough, it will be possible to introduce into Gibraltar an entire army, which, JOSEPH MONTGOLFIER. borne by the wind, will enter right above the heads of the English. Forthwith Montgolfier put his brilliant and simple idea to the test of experiment, and had the gratification of seeing a bag ascend from the floor. This was in November 1782. With soap-bubbles, then, and a paper-box began the conquest of the air. To show a few of the results of the fruitful researches which these two discoveries originated is our sole object in the present work. We shall ignore as far as possible the dreamers, charlatans and quacks who have taken almost exclusive possession of the navigation of the air, and who would render it ridiculous if the chimeras of men were able to detract from the value of what is really simple and great. Joseph Montgolfier returned to Annonay, where was the paper-mill of his father, who was still alive. Here he took his brother Stephen, to whom he was greatly attached, into his confidence, and made him the associate of his schemes and labours. Montgolfier obtained what he called his gas from a mixture of straw and chopped wool to which he had set fire, and which of course when attached underneath the opening of the balloon would have the effect of rarifying the air therein and therefore lightening it. It was an economical process, and no time was wasted in expanding the balloon. From the first the Montgolfiers used dimensions which the celebrated Magdeburg spheres never possessed. The first machine which they sent up in the open air had a capacity of 650 cubic feet. It may be said that the first really important attempt surpassed the hopes of the inventors, for the balloon escap...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217166102
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 84
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217166105
  • Publisher Date: 05 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 168 gr

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