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Francesco Lana, with his 'aerial ship, stands as one of the first great exponents of aerostatics; up to the time of the Montgolfier and Charles balloon experiments, aerostatic and aerodynamic research are so inextricably intermingled that it has been thought well to treat of them as one, and thus the work of Lana, Veranzio and his parachute, Guzman's frauds, and the like, have already been sketched.
It was not the first time that Lanstron had been in this vault. He had the combination of two of the sections of pigeonholes, aerostatics and intelligence. The rest belonged to other divisions. "The safe is my own, as you know. No one opens it; no one knows what is in it but me," said Partow, taking from it an envelope and a manuscript, which he laid on the table.
I wanted to tell you how I met with my awful loss; how I came to be out here in this modern hell! "I had a wife, a daughter, each of whom felt almost as powerful an interest in aerostatics as I did myself. And one day but, wait! "I had an enemy, too; one who had, years before, sought to win my love for his own; in vain, the cur!
Who would have dared predict such another, only a dozen years ago? I thought we had drawn very close to perfection while I was in the profession, but this, marvellous!" Both words and manner gave the keen-witted professor a clew to one mystery, and he quickly spoke: "Then you were familiar with aerostatics, sir? Your name is " "Edgecombe, Cooper Edgecombe."
That's why most pilots prefer to fly high whenever they can." "What causes the air to act in this way over such configurations?" propounded the publisher. John looked helpless, and smiled. "You've got me there," he admitted. "I haven't had the opportunity to study aerostatics the same as Paul here. He can probably tell us."
By this it is to be understood that, unlike Copernicus and Columbus, Montgolfier could not read in history of any similar discovery, containing the germ of his own feat. At least, we have no proof that the ancient nations practiced the art of aerial navigation to any extent whatever. The attempts which we are about to cite do not strictly belong to the history of aerostatics.
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