Nature, Volume 35Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1887 |
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... balloon ascents showed a In the next stratum above , rather rapid change to a drier atmosphere . Here were found the cirro - cumulus , and cirro - stratus . the atmosphere , though diminished , was still an important The differential ...
... balloon ascents showed a In the next stratum above , rather rapid change to a drier atmosphere . Here were found the cirro - cumulus , and cirro - stratus . the atmosphere , though diminished , was still an important The differential ...
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... balloon was invented before the experi- ment of Montgolfier . Theory is ever the soil of practice . The idea of the balloon has its starting - point in the principle of the pressure of fluids elucidated by Archimedes , of Syracuse , 200 ...
... balloon was invented before the experi- ment of Montgolfier . Theory is ever the soil of practice . The idea of the balloon has its starting - point in the principle of the pressure of fluids elucidated by Archimedes , of Syracuse , 200 ...
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... balloons than has ever been undertaken , the disused railway- stations being converted into balloon manufactories and train- ing schools for aëronauts . During four months 66 balloons left Paris - 54 - being specially made for the ...
... balloons than has ever been undertaken , the disused railway- stations being converted into balloon manufactories and train- ing schools for aëronauts . During four months 66 balloons left Paris - 54 - being specially made for the ...
Page 261
... balloon without setting fire to it . If I were to ask anyone here so to do , I am sure he would decline , and say the gas would catch fire as he placed the poker in the mouth . That is quite true ; and , to perform the experiment ...
... balloon without setting fire to it . If I were to ask anyone here so to do , I am sure he would decline , and say the gas would catch fire as he placed the poker in the mouth . That is quite true ; and , to perform the experiment ...
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... balloon . The next scene shows a nearer balloon ascended to a certain height . Now the two balloons are about to communicate . You see the flashes of light from the balloon . Although this invention is not two years old , it has already ...
... balloon . The next scene shows a nearer balloon ascended to a certain height . Now the two balloons are about to communicate . You see the flashes of light from the balloon . Although this invention is not two years old , it has already ...
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