. St. Nicholas [serial]. s wide at the bottom, as shown inFig. 1 (next page). From this pattern twelvepieces of colored tissue-paper were cut andpasted together at the edges, care being taken touse only a very small quantity of paste, that thewhole affair should be as light as possible inorder to rise quickly and carry the parachutes. A hoop of light iron wire twelve inches in 1002 THE COUNTY FAIR. [Sept. diameter was made for the bottom of the balloon,and braced with two cross-wires twenty incheslong, at the ends of which small hooks werebent to hold the parachutes. Six inches abovethis hoop
. St. Nicholas [serial]. s wide at the bottom, as shown inFig. 1 (next page). From this pattern twelvepieces of colored tissue-paper were cut andpasted together at the edges, care being taken touse only a very small quantity of paste, that thewhole affair should be as light as possible inorder to rise quickly and carry the parachutes. A hoop of light iron wire twelve inches in 1002 THE COUNTY FAIR. [Sept. diameter was made for the bottom of the balloon,and braced with two cross-wires twenty incheslong, at the ends of which small hooks werebent to hold the parachutes. Six inches abovethis hoop a smaller one, three inches in dia-meter, was braced with wires, and two or threefine wires were drawn across this hoop to form the men, both of which were cut from a singlepiece of cardboard and painted. Four of these parachutes were hung on theprojecting hooks at the bottom of the balloonby means of cotton-thread loops, and were re-leased by waxed-string fuses which the bovslighted just before the balloon was DIAGRAM OF DETAILS. a basket in which a cotton wad rested, as shownin Fig. 2. The cotton was saturated with wood alcohol,and after the balloon had been inflated with hotair, the waxed string hanging down from thecotton was lighted, and the fire creeping upthe string ignited the alcohol on the cotton andmade a fire within the balloon, which kept theair heated for some time after it had beenreleased. The parachutes were of tissue-paper fifteeninches in diameter, and from six threads were sus-pended square baskets constructed of paper,in which two little cardboard men sat oppositeeach other in two of the corners. Fig. 3 shows one of the baskets, and Fig. 4 The fuses were wound round a piece of thinwire attached to the hook wires of the balloon,and, being of four different lengths, the shortestone released its parachute first, the others fol-lowing in succession. A hanging and a released parachute areshown in Fig. 5, where A gives a clear ideahow to fix the fuse w
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