Airships past and present, together with chapters on the use of balloons in connection with meteorology, photography and the carrier pigeon . Fig. 130.—Balloon expeditions across the EnglishChannel. 212 AIRSHIPS PAST AND PRESENT. as existed. A Frenchman, named lHoste, experimented withsimilar dragging devices. He made several trips, of which the. Fig. 131.—Count de la Vaulx balloon over the Mediterranean. most remarkable were those from Cherbourg to London and fromCalais to Yarmouth. But on November 13th, 1887, lHoste andhis companion, named Mangot, were drowned. One of his mm

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