Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-07

The Navigation Of the Atmosphere Far
ther Experiments By Professor Lswe.
Rrostation, or the navigation Of the at
mosphere, has attracted the attention OF
scientific men from the earliest period bat
all attempts were futile, until after the dis.
coYery Of hydrogen gas, by Cavendish, soon
after the middle Of the last century. The
extreme lightness of hydrogen Immediately
suggested renewed experiments at zero.
nautic navi cation, the first being made BY.
Csvallo, the electrician they were, how
ever, on small scale, and attended with
little success. On the 9th Of June 1882, the
brothers Mongolfer sent up from Lyons,
France, paper balloon, filed with rarifsd
air, they having tried hydrogen gas without
success, that fluid always escaping through
pores Of the fibre. The balloon was one
hundred and ten feet in diameter, and of the
capacity of twenty-three thousand cubic
feet. AS the air became hot it rose rapidly,
but when q portion had escaped and the
balance became cool, it gradually settled to
the earth.
In August of the same year, a small ball
loon, capable Of containing hydrogen gas,
was made at Paris, and attached to rope, one
hundred feet long, and kept floating in the
atmosphere, at the end of the cord, for some
time, to the sstonishment and admiration Of
thousands Of curious people, who visited 1t
daily. A few days afterward, another was
made, and suffered TO ascend, and continued
to float for several hours, and finally sunk
to the ground, Eve leagues from the city.
Experiments were then made with balloons,
attached to which were baskets, containing
animals, all of which were attended with
success, and on the 2lst of November, 1888,
Pilatre de Rozier and the Marquis dArlan-
dus made an experimental assent, to the
hight of three thousand feet, with a balloon,
or Mongolfers, as they were then called,
which was seventy feet long, and forty.six
feet in diameter, and of the capacity Of
sixty thousand cubic feet.
Several efforts at erial navigation were
afterward made, some of which were disas-
trous; when in 1894, the French directory
conceived the design of accommodating the
military posts of the allies, my means of bal
looms; but the attempt did not avail any
thing, on account of the difficulty of guiding
them through the atmosphere, an impedi-
ment which has always prevented successful
arostatien.
Professor Lowe, who made an ascent from
this city a short time since, is sanguine that
all the difficulties which have heretofore
been regarded as insuvmountable, can bt
overcome, and with this view, he is expert
menting upon the phenomena Of the.atmos
phere, by frequent ascents. The rapidity
with which balloons move, certainly make
it highly desirable that the science of atmos
pheric navigation should be brought to per
fection, if it can be done.
The Professor will make another trip, from
the corner of Twelfth street and Central
avenue, tomorrow, to defray the expense
of his last, and proposes to take several pas
sengers with him, at reasonable price
Some of the seats have already been taken
and other romantic adventuTers, will, n
doubt avail themselves of the opportunit
now presented. 1t is the intention Of Nj
: Lowe to attempt to cross the Atlantic, at n
distant period; and we have no doubt br
his efforts will be crowned with success, {
they deserve to be.