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Camille Flammarion. Wonderful Balloon Ascents
Wonderful Balloon Ascents
Table of Contents
Preface
PREFACE
Introduction
Balloons and Air Journeys. PART I
THE CONQUEST OF THE SKIES.—1783
CHAPTER I
Attempts in Ancient Times to fly in the Air
CHAPTER II
The Theory of Balloons
CHAPTER III
The First Public Trial of the Balloon—Montgolfier's Balloon, Annonay, June 5th, 1783
CHAPTER IV
Second Experiment—Charle's Balloon, Paris, Champ de Mars, August 27, 1783
CHAPTER V
Third Experiment—Montgolfier's Balloon, Paris, Faubourg St. Antoine
CHAPTER VI
Fourth Experiment—Versailles, September 19, 1783, in presence of Louis XVI
CHAPTER VII
Men and Balloons
CHAPTER VIII
The First Aerial Voyage—Roziers and Arlandes
CHAPTER IX
The Second Aerial Voyage—Charles and Robert at the Tuileries, December 1, 1783
CHAPTER X
The Open Route—Travels and Travellers—Great Increase in the Number of Air Voyages—Lyons, Ascent of "Le Flesselles"—Milan, Ascent of Adriani—Flight of a Balloon from London—Lost Balloons in the Chief Towns of Europe
PART II
THE HISTORY OF THE AEROSTATION FROM THE YEAR 1783
CHAPTER I
Experiments and Studies—Blanchard at Talis—Guyton de Morveau at Dijon
CHAPTER II
Experiments in Montgolfières—Roders and Proust—The Duke of Chartres—The Comte d'Artois—Voyage of the Abbé Camus to Rodez
CHAPTER III
Serio-comic Aspects of the Subject—The Public duped— The Abbés Miolan and Janninct at the Luxembourg— Caricatures—The "Minerva" of Robertson, and its Voyage round the World
CHAPTER IV
The First Aerial Voyage in England—Blanchard crosses the Sea in a Balloon
CHAPTER V
Zambeccari's Perilous Trip across the Adriatic Sea
CHAPTER VI
Garnerin—Parachutes—Aerostation at Public Fêtes
CHAPTER VII
Green's Great Journey across Europe
CHAPTER VIII
The "Géant" Balloon
CHAPTER IX
The Necrology of Aeronautics
CHAPTER X
Experiments of Robertson, Lhoest, Saccarof, &c
PART III
Ascent of M. Gay-Lussac alone—Excursions of MM. Barral and Bixio
The Ascents of Messrs. Welsh, Glaisher, and Coxwell
CHAPTER III
Balloons made useful in Warfare
CHAPTER IV
