Andrée and His Balloon

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henri alexis lachambre. Andrée and His Balloon

Andrée and His Balloon

Table of Contents

Introduction

The Engineer Andrée. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

The Aerial Vessel. Description of the Balloon for Andrée’s Polar Expedition, and the Appliances Constructed at the Aerostatic Workshops of Vaugirard

FIRST PART. TWO MONTHS AT SPITZBERGEN

I. The Departure

II. Out at Sea

III. The Installation

IV. The Victoria—Bear Hunting

V. The Midnight Sun

VI. National Fête

VII. The Inflation

VIII. The Erline Jarl

IX. The Snow

X. A Long Wait

XI. The Fram

XII. The Storm

XIII. My last Night on the Virgo

XIV. The Return

SECOND PART

I. Departure of the Second Expedition

II. Arrival at Spitzbergen

III. Preparations at Dane’s Island

IV. The Landing and Preparation of the Balloon—The Inflation

V. Amusements at Spitzbergen—Testing the Gas-Tightness of the Balloon—Arrival of the Vessels Express and Lofoten

VI. The Last Preparations—Anticipations

VII. Before the Departure—Waiting for the South Wind

VIII. The Departure

The Last Message from Andrée

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Henri Lachambre, Alexis Machuron

Published by Good Press, 2021

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In the interior of the balloon the upper extremity of the “rending flap” is of fourfold silk; its edge is put round a stick of hard wood, to which a rope for pulling is fixed, by means of which the rent is made. This rope descends to the car after having passed through the lower part of the envelope, near the appendage, in a tube.

In order to make the rent with ease, which will require an effort equal to a traction of about 220 or 250 pounds, Andrée intends to use a small grapnel, which he will attach to the end of this rope and throw to the ground at the proper moment.

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