My Life and Balloon Experiences: With a Supplementary Chapter on Military Ballooning, Band 1W.H. Allen & Company, 1887 - 13 Seiten |
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... landing was effected on a plank . In taking a retrospective view of boyhood , the next circumstance which impressed me was my being taken to a school at the marine barracks , where one Sergeant W superintended an elementary school for ...
... landing was effected on a plank . In taking a retrospective view of boyhood , the next circumstance which impressed me was my being taken to a school at the marine barracks , where one Sergeant W superintended an elementary school for ...
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... landed in a boat without having witnessed anything more sensational than the launch . A passing reference to this scene may be considered by the reader as inapplicable to the life of a balloonist ; but I cannot well omit subjects of the ...
... landed in a boat without having witnessed anything more sensational than the launch . A passing reference to this scene may be considered by the reader as inapplicable to the life of a balloonist ; but I cannot well omit subjects of the ...
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... landed in Germany . " " Read on , I am all attention John . " I then heard the full particulars of that extraordinary voyage . The result was a balloon fever , which was by no means suited to my position at that time . observed in me a ...
... landed in Germany . " " Read on , I am all attention John . " I then heard the full particulars of that extraordinary voyage . The result was a balloon fever , which was by no means suited to my position at that time . observed in me a ...
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... landing . The inflation was completed with the utmost ease , and just before the variegated Vauxhall lamps were lighted , a circular framework , with Darby's fireworks attached , was duly placed in position , so that it could be fixed ...
... landing . The inflation was completed with the utmost ease , and just before the variegated Vauxhall lamps were lighted , a circular framework , with Darby's fireworks attached , was duly placed in position , so that it could be fixed ...
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... landing at Antwerp an Englishman presented himself on the quay , whom we took , and rightly so , for a gentleman who had entered into the balloon speculation at Brussels , and who had in consequence engaged my services to ascend . He ...
... landing at Antwerp an Englishman presented himself on the quay , whom we took , and rightly so , for a gentleman who had entered into the balloon speculation at Brussels , and who had in consequence engaged my services to ascend . He ...
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