Airships past and present, together with chapters on the use of balloons in connection with meteorology, photography and the carrier pigeon . ith two friendsin a Charliere, which was to beheated with a big spirit balloon had so much lift thatZambeccari and one of his com-panions soon became unconscious,while the other, who had not doneso much hard work on the pre-parations before starting, wasquite unaffected, and succeeded in waking them as they were onthe point of falling into the sea. Before they had succeeded inthrowing out any of the ballast they found themselves in thewater, and
Airships past and present, together with chapters on the use of balloons in connection with meteorology, photography and the carrier pigeon . ith two friendsin a Charliere, which was to beheated with a big spirit balloon had so much lift thatZambeccari and one of his com-panions soon became unconscious,while the other, who had not doneso much hard work on the pre-parations before starting, wasquite unaffected, and succeeded in waking them as they were onthe point of falling into the sea. Before they had succeeded inthrowing out any of the ballast they found themselves in thewater, and then proceeded to throw overboard everything onwhich they could lay hands, including instruments, clothing,lamps, propellers, ropes, etc. The balloon at once rose to a greatheight, reaching a higher level than that from which it hadpreviously fallen. Breathing became very difficult; one becameseasick, another had bleeding at the nose, and in consequenceof the severe cold all their wet clothes were covered with balloon soon descended again, and once more fell into thesea, the aeronauts being rescued as they were on the point of. Fig. 165.—A. Laurence Kotch. SCIENTIFIC BALLOONING. 265 drowning. Several of Zambeccaris fingers were so frostbittenthat they had to be cut off. Glaisher and Coxwell made a remarkable ascent in Sep-tember, 1862. The balloon had so much lift that at the endof 18 minutes it wTas 10,500 ft. high, having risen at the rateof 10 ft. per second. At this height the temperature was at thefreezing point. At 16,000 ft. Coxwell began to lapse into acomatose state, whereas Glaisher was unaffected. They soon
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