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"And now," said Joe addressing Curlie as he settled back to a seat on one of the gas-filled tubes, "you can test out what you said once about keeping your radiophone dry and tuned up under any and every circumstance. Suppose you tune her up now and get off an S.O.S."
"I wish I could," he wheezed. "A man of your age and weight getting up to kiddish gymnastics " "Don't," he said, and looked agonised. "I'll tell you," he said, and gesticulated. "How the deuce," said I, "are you holding on up there?" And then abruptly I realised that he was not holding on at all, that he was floating up there just as a gas-filled bladder might have floated in the same position.
"I wish I could," he wheezed. "A man of your age and weight getting up to kiddish gymnastics " "Don't," he said, and looked agonised. "I'll tell you," he said, and gesticulated. "How the deuce," said I, "are you holding on up there?" And then abruptly I realised that he was not holding on at all, that he was floating up there just as a gas-filled bladder might have floated in the same position.
Isn't this the story of the Life of Christ? All my life I have loved balloons all balloons the heavy English sort, immense and round, that have to be pushed about, and the gay, light, gas-filled French ones that soar into the air the moment you let go of them.
The gas-filled shells, however, the British found more difficult. They did not give warning of their coming as did the appearance of the comparatively slow-moving gas cloud. Thus in the first week of May, 1915, Hill 60 was taken by the Germans in a bombardment of asphyxiating shells.
For the doctor treated Cuckoo frankly as a brave woman, not deceitfully as a timid child to be buoyed on the waves of ill-circumstances with gas-filled bladders. Cuckoo knew the worst of things, and by the knowledge was confirmed in her mule's attitude which so weighed upon Mrs. Brigg. Her hands were tied in every direction except one.
And at the same time the character of the war altered through the replacement of the huge gas-filled airships by flying-machines as the instruments of war.
"This bottle has been pumped out to a very good vacuum. I then swept it out with helium gas. Then it was pumped out again. I hope to take this into some gas-filled region, where the gas will be able to leak in, but the air won't. When it comes to going out again, the gas will have to fight air pressure, and will probably stay in." "Hope it works. It would help if we knew what we were bucking."
A groan escaped his lips. "Gone!" he muttered. "Should have thought of that! But," he told himself, "there's still the raft!" The raft, built of boards and gas-filled tubes, was lashed to the deck forward. Thither he made his difficult way. To his great relief, he found the raft still safe.
He referred to a new device of his with which the Wondership was equipped for protecting balloon bags from lightning. In a thunderstorm a balloon, or gas-filled dirigible, is subject to sudden variations of electric charge which, under certain conditions, might produce sparks leading to its annihilation.
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