First Air Voyage in America
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Applewood Books
Published: 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9781557095107
Subjects: Technology; Science; Transportation; Romance: Modern; Aviation - History; United States - 18th Century; 18th century; Balloon ascensions; Blanchard, Jean-Pierre; Chronological Period/18th Century; Cultural Region/Mid-Atlantic; Geographic Orientation/Pennsylvania; History; History/United States - General; Locality/Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania; Philadelphia; Philadelphia (Pa.); Transportation / Aviation / History; General
First sentence: I HAD performed my forty-fourth ascension All Europe was filled  with the glory of the famous MONTGOLFIER The principal cities of the old world had applauded the happy success of so brilliant a discovery.