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A. MONSTER BALLOON.
The Monarch Of Air-Ships-A Monu-
mental Dome I66 Feet High.
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Visitors to the Exhibition of 1867 NAV

The Monarch of Air-ships-A Monu-
mental Dome 166 Feet High.
From the London Times
Visitors to the Exhibition of 1867 may
remember on the Champs de Mars a
captive balloon of large size. This was
the first captive balloon that had been
Unanswered by means of a steam en-
CINE, the balloon itself having been
1860 cubic feet in capacity, and capa-
BILE of rising upward of eight hundred
feet above the ground. This was at
the time considered an srostatic tri-
umph, and was due to NJ. Henry Gift
fard, the inventor of the well known
"injector," from which invention for
many years past he has been in the en-
ioyment of handsome fortune. The
organizers of the Philadelphia Exhibi-
ton asked NJ. Giffard, we believe, to
construct a similar balloon for the grand
Centenary display, but the wealthy
posal, as he wished to reserve an seros-
tatic surprise to the visitors to the next
International Exhibition of Paris. NJ.
Giffard has devised the construction of
a balloon for 1873, which will far sur
pass any effort hitherto made in this
direction, and which will, no doubt,
be one of the most popular attractions
at the forthcoming exhibit
ton. The plans were submitted to
the Commissioners of the Exhibition by
NJ. G. Tissandier, who has just pub
| lished some of the details of construc-
ton. This new balloon will be formed
of resisting material, absolutely i'm
permeable to hydrogen gas, manufac-
tured of alternate sheets of linen and
caoutchouc, protected externally by
several layers of varnish, and coated
with white paint to diminish the effects
of the suns rays. The balloon will
have a capacity of nearly seven hundred
and ten thousand cubic feet, and will
form an immense sphere, the greatest
ever constructed, the diameter of which
will not be less than 112 feet. By means
of a system of valves it will be managed
with the greatest ease. When moored
to the ground the balloon will form 3
monumental dome 166 feet high, ex-
| cseding by 10 feet the highest Of the
Arc de Triomphe. The balloon itself
will weigh $500 pounds, and to
join the pieces together of which
it is composed will take nearly four
miles of sewing, with twenty-five
miles of thread. The car of the bal
loon will form gallery fifty feet in cir
conference. A circular space in the
center of ten feet in diameter will be
reserved; in the center of this space
the cable, powerful rope of ten inches
in circumference, will be joined to the
upper circle by means of an apparatus
which will constantly indicate the as
cending power of the balloon. This
aerial machine will be held to the earth
by eight cables, attached to iron rings
fixed securely in masonry, and will be
suspended above vast cOnical basin.
The car will be reached by two nova
Die gangways, and from forty to fifty
persons will be taken on board at each
ascent. The cable will descend to the
bottom of the conical basin, and by
means of a secure system of wheels will
be carried along tunnel to be worked
by an engine of 20O-horse power. This
cable will be 1,730 feet in length. The
captive balloon viii be placed in the
center of circular inclosure 333 feet in
diameter. 1t will tower above the beau
tiful gardens and will form the most
elevated dome in the Champs de
Mars, The greatest precautions
will be taken to have every
part of the great machine strong
enough to resist all possible contingent
cies; the cable that fixes the balloon to
earth will be so strong that hurricane
could not snap it. An elaborate but
easily-worked apparatus will fill it with
hydrogen gas. With this balloon, then,
it will be possible to raise more than
100000 visitors 1850 feet above the
earth during the continuance of the ex-
hibition. They may contemplate from
that height, surprising that of eleven
Arcs de Triomphe, the fine tableaux of
the city of Paris and its surroundings,
and they will be able to see that the
scenes described by the Gronants are
not exaggerated pictures. The steam
captive balloon will be located in the
center of the exhibitions great park,
between the Palace and the Jena Bridge.
NJ. Giffard proposes to construct this
enormous machine entirely at his own
expense. 1t will cost several hundred
thousand FRANCISCAN insignificant sum,
however, compared to the fortune of
the inventor of the INJECTOR"