Wonderful Balloon Ascents or the Conquest of the Skies
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: June 17, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9781419194832
Subjects: Aircraft: general interest; Aviation - History; Transportation
First sentence: The title of our introduction to aeronautics may appear ambitious to astronomers, and to those who know that the infinite space we call the heavens is for ever inaccessible to travellers from the earth; but it was not so considered by those who witnessed the ardent enthusiasm evoked at the ascension of the first balloon.