Nevada national., 1859-09-10
3aiiecps-Th~;r Use In vyar.

sattoc1s-Thrir Use in War.
THE reported us- Of balloon by the En-
peror Narnlecn at the hattie Of Solfrrins IT,
hy n maturity Of readers rrierm.d nm inno-
vaf'cn of h's own. Justice requires. howev
or. that honor he bestowed wh,re lonor |.
due. And This honor is due to no lesr u per.
-onage than Ro'rsnieire.
Balloons were first invented ty The broil
ers MOI tgolrsr. WIN made their arsi expert
msut on the 5ih June. 1888 ~ Aanony. re-
p,a':ng II afterwards. on the 26ih Of Angus,
at Paris. In the Ch~mp de Wars. Their bal
looms weIe called b., the French .lfsafgoif.
ere. IN complmen. tn the inventors. They
we're ~ linen cover lined With paper, sud
contained oIly heated air. sni rot hydrogen
ess. which was sILseqnen'Iy introduced
The paper balIoon- which are 50 much used
''n The Fourth nj July Ly the patriotic citiz.
ems ef America. A. we'll as ihose which are
nightly senr up from tho Palsce Garden 10
this city, nre properly spanking .H,aigoif-re
and not balloons. L. October of the same
year. Pil,tre de Rozlsr. aud ihe Marquis a
Ailani.s. wer. the first adv, ninrers bald
enpuyh to undertake 10 ascend into the air
in hasket ,'tacbcd To .Honfgoifere; they
rose to y heish, cf tl.ree thousand feet and
descend.d in safety io the earth. Shortly
alter the Distinguished philosopher Churles
substituted hydrogen gas for the heated air.
the former bring fifteen times a. lieh. as The
latter. The irsi experiment on the Chamr
dc Mars nr'"iu"-.l great excitement among
the assembled multitude. as well IA through
tn" streets Of Paris. II was attended with
com.leir srtcss, notwithstanding "a violent
shower. which in no wny appeared 10 inter
teta With its prngrcss. Li5ss, in his Die
fionaire de Physique. thus conclnies his no
tics ~ The event: The satisfsclion was sn
great. that even elegantly dressed lsdi.s re.
msinsd with their eyes int,utiy fixed on ths
balloon. regardless OF the rain, which fell on
them in ,orrents.v
In 1895. the Committee of Public S,friy.
R"he-r'-rre p'esidins. .stshish"'l at the pal.
ace nf Iudon. camp,ny called the Lusfifut
.7sresfati7ue. II ca si ted OF fifty adventn-
rou- young mrn. whose duty IL was ta make
constant exp meats with their balloons.
with vi-~ 10 their advantageous employ
meat ia warfare. Their proceedings we're
conducted with the siricissi secrecy. Spe-
cisI balloons were prepared 'or each ri the
fourteen French armies then ai'out taking
th.fie'd. ard 10 each balloon a distinct name
vas attached. Eut the balloons appear tn
have been Only once nsel 10 d anisup dur
ing the war; OF the Republic. This wa. Mt
the battle Of Flenrns, oD the 2cth June 1874.
when the French General J,urtlan 4 .fcated
the imp,risiisi- nnd,r Prince Cobrrg. The
name of the balloon was the Eafrerrenaat
tEntrrprisinu.l Dnrr-'s Tsricsgrapiia
.Neoioeiea CaHira re'.rs to IL a. follows:
"An rronau' ard twa officers Of rank as
cended IN IL twice. and by their signals made
With Gags. rnn,riLuied to the success Of the
day. Tor rather successive dsys) which wac
Of the creates, consequence to the Rcpubl-
can arms. When the labors of the Aeros-
istc Institution shall have attained to a de-
gree oi general uLtility aal perfection, the
transactions. u has been said. will be pub
iisl-d; si present the French know little Of
what is deiag. The greatest Improvement
the Institution has hitherto male has been to
add kind of telegraph. falling below the
gondala. aud surprndod from il. consisting
OF eight cylinders OF black taiietta. which
iurm tie signals iy o:ening and shutting.
aud appear like sn many paper lanterns
1nis simple apparatus forms Two hundred
md sixty y-dse changes. aud has heen feund
sufiicicnt for the purposes of corresDoadrncr.
The princirsl engineer has had in contem
plation the construction of trleersphic bal.
loon which might be- worked on terra .ti,ma,
ty means of strings COMMUNICATING with the
cylinder before mentioned. at the height Of
twelve feet from the grouli.
Dupre's book was published sbont the year
1900.
The use OF balloons for military recon
noissaI ce Was not long continued. In 1872
shs Russians attempted to hriog then sgsiu