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Updated: May 11, 2025
It is impossible to dismiss this brief sketch of French balloonists of this period without paying some due tribute to M. Depuis Delcourt, equally well known in the literary and scientific world, and regarded in his own country as a father among aeronauts. Born in 1802, his recollection went back to the time of Montgolfier and Charles, to the feats of Garnerin, and the death of Madame Blanchard.
Crewe, "never mind reading any more of that rot." "It's botched," said Mr. Tooting, whose artistic soul was jarred. "I'd have put that in Avalon County, and Weave, and Marshall. I know men that take all three of those papers in Putnam." No need of balloonists to see what the enemy is about, when we have a Mr. Tooting. "They're stung!" he cried, as he ran rapidly through the bundle of papers Mr.
Stop him talking that way, Frank, won't you?" pleaded Bluff, who had emptied all the sand out of the bag dropped by the drifting balloonists, and declared he meant to hang the same up in his den at home as a memento of the wonderful incident. Frank stood up to see the better.
All of which was true enough, and some of the first balloonists cast upon their fires substances like sulphur and pitch in order to produce a thicker smoke, which they believed had greater lifting power than ordinary hot air. In the race for actual accomplishment the balloonists, the advocates of lighter-than-air machines, took the lead at first.
And in conclusion these are the words he hurled in the faces of the balloonists: "With your aerostats you can do nothing you will arrive at nothing you dare do nothing! The boldest of your aeronauts, John Wise, although he has made an aerial voyage of twelve hundred miles above the American continent, has had to give up his project of crossing the Atlantic!
Sophia smiled at the agitation, and at the inefficient management which had never thought of food. For it appeared that the food had not merely been forgotten; it was a question which had not even been considered. She could not help despising all that crowd of self-important and fussy males to whom the idea had not occurred that even balloonists must eat.
Everyone knew of the appearance of the mysterious engineer named Robur Robur the Conqueror and the tumult among the balloonists, and his inexplicable disappearance. But it was quite another thing when all the town heard that the president and secretary of the club had also disappeared during the night. Long and keen was the search in the city and neighborhood! Useless!
In each hand was one of those American institutions known as revolvers which the mere pressure of the fingers is enough to fire pocket mitrailleuses in fact. And taking advantage not only of the recoil of his assailants but also of the silence which accompanied it. "Decidedly," said he, "it was not Amerigo that discovered the New World, it was Cabot! You are not Americans, citizen balloonists!
"I'd like to drop a bag of ballast on his head, the same as those balloonists did on Si's," muttered Tom. "Wouldn't do any good," said Jack. "It would only bounce off again." "I guess it would at that," agreed Tom with a grin. "I've half a mind to take a chance," said Jack suddenly. "And get a hole blown in the balloon bag," protested Tom. "We wouldn't be better off than before in that case."
For nearly a century after the invention of the Montgolfier and Charlier balloons there was not much progress made in the science of aeronautics. True, inventors such as Charles Green suggested and carried out new methods of inflating balloons, and scientific observations of great importance were made by balloonists both in Britain and on the Continent.
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