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Aeronautics - Early works to 1800
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Thoughts on the farther improvement of aerostation, Or The art of travelling in the atmosphere: with a description of a machine, now constructing, on different principles from those hitherto adopted. By the Inventor of the machine.
Inventor of the machine.Date: M,DCC.LXXXV. [1785]- Books
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Le dauphin Enlevé, ou l'art de se diriger dans les airs. Par le Vte de ***.
Vaux, Charles Grant, vicomte de.Date: M.DCC.XCIII. [1793]- Books
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Airopaidia: containing the narrative of a balloon excursion from Chester, the eighth of September, 1785, taken from Minutes made during the Voyage: Hints on the Improvement of Balloons, and Mode of Inflation by Steam. Means to Prevent their Descent over Water: Occasional Enquiries into the State of the Atmosphere, Favouring their Direction: with various Philosophical Observations and Conjectures. To which is subjoined, mensuration of heights by the barometer, made plain: with extensive tables. The whole serving as an introduction to ærial navigation: with a copious index. By Thomas Baldwin, Esq. A. M.
Baldwin, Thomas.Date: [1786]- Books
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Hints of important uses, to be derived from aerostatic globes. With a print of an aerostatic globe, and its appendages. Originally designed in 1783. By Thomas Martyn.
Martyn, Thomas, 1735-1825.Date: M DCC LXXXIV. [1784]