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Updated: May 17, 2025
They dropped in a field by the roadside, landing on the running wheels as lightly as a feather, thanks to the shock absorbers, similar to those of an automobile, with which the Wondership was equipped. "Now for the repair kit," said Jack, rummaging a locker. He soon had balloon silk, big shears, a quick-drying gum solution and a pot of gasproof varnish, ready for the job of patching up the hole.
This he placed inside the hole, spreading it out so that when pressure was applied it would be pressed firmly against the aperture. Then he coated the patch with the gasproof varnish, and both boys sat down to give the job time to "set." Their eyes turned idly to the high-road. It was about noon and there was a heavy sort of silence in the air.
He explained the difficulties of the airship builder, the expense and tendency to "pinholes" of gold-beaters' skin, the curious fact that chemists had so far failed to discover a gasproof varnish. "But of course," he said, "those things will come. The airship is the machine of the future. Its stability, its power to carry great weights, point to that.
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