Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1859-09-03


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) SCIENTIFIC BALLOONING.
Nsi,rst;ee Of Professor Wlsss 2ssd and 2asd Aeri-
81 Reyogea nude from lafayette, Ladiana Aug
ale asS II, 1869.
baf6te giving the details Of this serial log, will
tile secession to say that my experiments in the
West with the balloon Jupiter were never intended
to be essentially "trans- continental" voyages and
for this reason-the balloon is not big enough TO
make them unless the local surface currents run
the right way. balloon to do these things with.
must be large enough to carry her passengers and
bSiast when only half full of gas This will enable
tie air vessel to mount to a height Of three and
half miles without discharge of gas As at that ati-
tue the half filled balloon will be quite full by ex-
pArsion The Jupiter has, in all her flights, been
filled from four-ifths to her full capacity, and con-
sequenty compelled to give out her gas by the safe
tyvalve whenever height above few thousand
feet was attained; Some newspapers have ani@ad-
verted considerably upon my failing to perform
these trans continental trips, when indeed never
engaged to perform them excepting with this pro-
visa that if the local currents would serve to do 50.
Ny object in these Western experiments was psrtc-
ularly instituted for the purpose of investigating
the air currents in the INTERIOR and to make expert
ments for the increase of knowledge and its difu-
sion among men," and under these auspices was
provided with instruments from the very proceeds
Of the who bequeathed his substance in accord
ance with the above quotation.
On the 18th of August 1859, the Jupiter was in
fated near the gas works in the city of Lafayette,
and at Q P. N. she was moved, under an escort OF
Captain Fondas military company, and Sunday
school excursonists and visitors generally, in all
not less than fifteen thousand persons towards the
Court House square. When We reached Main street
it became necessary to cross the telegraph wires
In the midst of this dense crowd of orderly persons
and contracted of high buildings the balloon
got away from her ropes by an accident not provid
ed for e., extra guy ropes. The ascent was very
rapid and l was without my barometer, compass
and chart, and without provisions. Knowing, too,
that the time for starting had not arrived by nearly
an hour and the balloon not yet photographed in
the square, as mentioned in the programme, pulled
. full valve, which checked her after attaining
height of 1000 to 1000 feet In coming down
discovered that something had happened to the
valve. landed in the middle of street half mile
from the starting point and was soon in the hands
of the military under escort back to the square
Here there not less than 90 900 people gather
ed and in their midst the Jupiter was photograph
ed by three different artists. Finding that the gas
was escaping fast and feeling DESTROYS Of getting
tho balloon out of the midst of this dense Of
people, requested my son to step into the car and
feet and in half an hour lie the outskirts Of
the town. From this point Mr.. Carleton had the
balloon towed back to the gas works. Here had
the top of her hauled down, and discovered that
one Of the three India rubber springs had snapped
and few in under the valve clapper, causing the
leakage aforesaid This we repaired, and with the
gas remaining in her-some 5000 cubic feet-it Was
Ioff fo cto Vt Il
ed.that the voyage and experiments should be made
next day, at two o'clock P. NJ.
Atnoon on the 18th the Jupiter was again ready.
Inflated about three-fourths full, she carries me
with $50 pounds of sand ballast besides instruments
and provisions. With good Smithsonian barome-
ter, thermometer, and with paper prepared to test
the ozone of the upper air, provided by Charles N.
Wetherill, analytical chemist started under very
calm atmosphere at P. N. precisely. When
reached the clouds and passed up above them short
distance smelled what inferred was ozone. The
barometer stood at twenty-five and as the thermom-
eter hung in the sun omitted its notings, though
II ranged from ninety four degrees at starting to
sixtysix degrees for the first two hours. After
scanning the country round as well as I could
through the vast dees in the clouds below, and re-
naming poised fixed in space) more than an hour,
following notes in my log book. As never follow
ed my log literally heretofore in my narratives,
will in this quote portion of it written above,
and will designate those portions as quotations
"While up in the lonely, heavenly regions of the
clouds feeling pous and gladdened the thought oc-
cured to me that my friends below wondered why
was not going on my voyage east I thought 50
myseh but what can do-Jupiter as full as adrum-
no End-not breath palm leaf fan puts her
slightly in motion revolving slowly to and fro.
l am hungry-food tastes delicious.
Below-between the white feecy clouds-true
emblems of Gods pure works-brilliant drapery Of
heavens vast gallery-all of sudden hear the
roar Of artilery-what is something like distan,
thunder-again-i comes from below, one Of those
peculiar noises that puzzles the discrimination of thu
aeron.ut Looking over my car found myself still
over the city of Lafayette"
Here the test paper showed very slight signs o.
the presence of ozone, and smelt it sensbly as
grazed cloud in coming down to . barometer o.
"a After had descended to the lowermost clouds
here dischared ballast and rose ND till the barome
ter stood 81. The Wabash now presented the an
pearance Of crooked thread of water, and Jupite
was again stationary in space Here my log read
az can't make nal trim east will make one som.
where else. / feel rejoiced inviporated extremeI,
happy. God is all around me-1stra. Castra. M
men, Lumen. The manifestations around me max
me rejoice in exclamation and admiration of God
exalted handiwork. Glorious reverie-this feelin
is worth . lifetimes laudation of a thousand mile
trip" sxxs.sse, e. -,e-5..,
such were the equations while standing in spac.
and permit me to say here, that most of these coz
taaeee break out into involuntary exclamations. =
There Is physical cause for this The animal sy,
TEN ezpsods under diminished atmospheric pressur,
With me it never fails to produce exhilarstion. m
brain becomes active the blood circulates more "A,
idly, the organs Of the five senses become enerret
and more aeute-and the mind becomes illuminste
IS We're BY something that brings to recollection
with The rapidity Of lightning, al the concomitan
Of the subject passing through it.
! have frequently heretofore determined, VIII
sai1s through thess peculiarly formed cloud Geld
when ns!es fail to produce these exhIlsrations
me. to publish the full log Of ordinations and I'd
r.tops that they bring forth with an insuppressib
sPontamety bnt NY Judgment always forbade .
wha 4goe down. Alter descending to the earth
hslowed ~ anguor that acts the 9th
Fegsseut understanding in this counscs;o
sxpAcit s. siyimg that this occurs M