The Living Age Volume 263 (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...drawn in. By degrees the huge monster stands erect, dragging at the bags of sand which prevent its flight into space. Filled at last, it rocks lazily to and fro. straining at the net which encases it like some captured animal. At last all is ready; the pilot has arrived, and, with his two travelling companions, climbs into the car. There is just room enough for three, no more. On the ropes attaching the car to the balloon are hung various mathematical instruments--a statescope to denote one's rise or fall; an aneroid barometer, which indicates the height reached; a barascope. with a card on a revolving cylinder, upon which are marked with a pen the deviations of the balloon's course. There are also maps, compasses, a small clock, and several ingenious contrivances, including a camera, with which photographs can be taken from any height. At the bottom of the car are some half-dozen bags of sand, the size of a footbalL These form the ballast. All safely in, the last restraining weights are detached, and with a hoist from those standing by, the balloon glides upwards into space. The moment has arrived when the novice would give a great deal to be back on earth again. It is too late. With ever-increasing rapidity the world is left behind, or, to speak more correctly, the feeling is that of the earth dropping away from the balloon, for to those in the car not a movement is perceptible. In a very few minutes, so wide is the gulf that it is with difficulty one recognizes anything below but the largest buildings. Instinctively one looks to see how one is suspended in mid-air. Eight thin cords--that decrease in thickness according to one's nervous condition--alone hold the car to the balloon. The idea is appalling. Still the world hurries away, quicker than ever it ...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...drawn in. By degrees the huge monster stands erect, dragging at the bags of sand which prevent its flight into space. Filled at last, it rocks lazily to and fro. straining at the net which encases it like some captured animal. At last all is ready; the pilot has arrived, and, with his two travelling companions, climbs into the car. There is just room enough for three, no more. On the ropes attaching the car to the balloon are hung various mathematical instruments--a statescope to denote one's rise or fall; an aneroid barometer, which indicates the height reached; a barascope. with a card on a revolving cylinder, upon which are marked with a pen the deviations of the balloon's course. There are also maps, compasses, a small clock, and several ingenious contrivances, including a camera, with which photographs can be taken from any height. At the bottom of the car are some half-dozen bags of sand, the size of a footbalL These form the ballast. All safely in, the last restraining weights are detached, and with a hoist from those standing by, the balloon glides upwards into space. The moment has arrived when the novice would give a great deal to be back on earth again. It is too late. With ever-increasing rapidity the world is left behind, or, to speak more correctly, the feeling is that of the earth dropping away from the balloon, for to those in the car not a movement is perceptible. In a very few minutes, so wide is the gulf that it is with difficulty one recognizes anything below but the largest buildings. Instinctively one looks to see how one is suspended in mid-air. Eight thin cords--that decrease in thickness according to one's nervous condition--alone hold the car to the balloon. The idea is appalling. Still the world hurries away, quicker than ever it ...

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Rarebooksclub.com

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United States

Release date

May 2012

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First published

May 2012

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Dimensions

246 x 189 x 24mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

Pages

470

ISBN-13

978-1-231-10305-0

Barcode

9781231103050

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1-231-10305-1



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