. The Encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information. e, and the two aeronauts Louisand Jules Godard. In spite of the elaborate preparations thathad been made and the stores of provisions that were taken up,the balloon descended at nine oclock, at Meaux, the early descentbeing rendered necessary, it was said, by an accident to thevalve-line. At a second ascent, made a fortnight later, therewere nine passengers, including Madame Nadar. The balloondescended at the expiration of seventeen hours, near Nienburgin Hanover, a distance of about 400 m. A str
. The Encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information. e, and the two aeronauts Louisand Jules Godard. In spite of the elaborate preparations thathad been made and the stores of provisions that were taken up,the balloon descended at nine oclock, at Meaux, the early descentbeing rendered necessary, it was said, by an accident to thevalve-line. At a second ascent, made a fortnight later, therewere nine passengers, including Madame Nadar. The balloondescended at the expiration of seventeen hours, near Nienburgin Hanover, a distance of about 400 m. A strong wind wasblowing, and it was dragged over the ground for 7 or 8 the passengers were bruised, and some seriously hurt. Theballoon and car were then brought to England, and exhibitedat the Crystal Palace at the end of 1863 and beginning of two ascents of Nadars balloon excited an extraordinaryamount of enthusiasm and interest, vastly out of proportionto what they were entitled to. Nadars idea was to obtain suffi-cient money, by the exhibition of his balloon, to carry out a plan. Fig. 6.—The Great Nassau Balloon. of aerial locomotion he had conceived possible by means of theprinciple of the screw; in fact, he spoke of Le Geant as thelast balloon. He also started LAeronaute, a newspaper devotedto aerostation, and published a smaU book, which was translatedinto English under the title The Right to Fly. Directly after Nadars two ascents, Eugene Godard con-structed a fire-baUoon of nearly half a miUion cubic feet capa-city—more than double that of Nadars and only slightly lessthan that attributed to the FlesseUes of 1783. The air washeated by an i8-ft. stove, weighing, with the chimney, 980 furnace was fed by straw; and the car consisted of agallery surrounding it. Two ascents of this baUoon, the firstfire-baUoon seen in London, were made from Cremorne Gardensin July 1864. After the first journey the balloon descended atGreenwich, and after the second at
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