| | Book | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | Balloons
| | | | Creator: | Gibbs-Smith, Charles Harvard, 1909- | | | | Publication: | Ariel Press, London,[1956] | | | | Call #: | TL617 G44 Oversize | | | | Extent: | xvp. col. illus., 12 col. plates. 41 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Balloons
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 2 | Title: | Free and captive balloons : Part I--Free balloons
| | | | Creator: | Upson, Ralph Hazlett, 1888- | | | | | Chandler, Charles de Forest, 1878-1939 | | | | Publication: | Ronald Press Co, New York,c1926. | | | | Notes: | Includes index. | | | | Call #: | TL610 U696 | | | | Extent: | xiii, 331 p. : illus., diagrs. ; 22 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Balloons
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 4 | Title: | Military observation balloons (captive and free): a complete treatise on their manufacture, equipment, inspection, and handling, with special instructions for the training of a field balloon company
| | | | Creator: | Widmer, Emil Joseph, 1889- | | | | Publication: | D. Van Nostrand Co, New York,1917. | | | | Call #: | U640 .W641 1917 | | | | Extent: | vii, 151 pages : including frontispiece, illustrations, folded plates ; 20 cm | | | | Subjects: | Balloons | Aerial observation (Military science)
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 5 | Title: | Wonderful balloon ascents: or, The conquest of the skies : a history of balloons and balloon voyages
| | | | Creator: | Marion, Fulgence. | | | | Publication: | Charles Scribner & Co, New York,1870. | | | | Notes: | Translation of: Les ballons et les voyages aâeriens. | | | | Call #: | TL616 .M341 1870 | | | | Extent: | xvi, 218, 32, 6 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Balloons | Balloon ascensions
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 6 | Title: | Through the air: a narrative of forty years' experience as an aèeronaut. Comprising a history of the various attempts in the art of flying by artificial means from the earliest period down to the present time. With an account of the author's most important air-voyages and his many thrilling adventures and hairbreadth escapes. Also, an appendix, in which are given full instructions for the manufacture and management of balloons
| | | | Creator: | Wise, John, 1808-1879 | | | | Publication: | To-day Pub. Co, Philadelphia, New York, [etc.],1873. | | | | Notes: | An enlarged edition of the author's "System of aeronautics", issued in 1850. | | | | Call #: | TL515 W813 | | | | Extent: | 650 p. : incl. col. front., plates, ports., facsim. ; 24 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Aeronautics -- History | Balloons
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 7 | Title: | The dominion of the air: the story of aèerial navigation
| | | | Creator: | Bacon, John Mackenzie, 1846-1904 | | | | Publication: | Cassell and Co, London, New York [etc.],1902. | | | | Notes: | Includes index. | | | | Call #: | TL616 B128 1902 | | | | Extent: | viii, 348 p. : front., plates, facsims. ; 20 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Balloons | Aeronautics -- History
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 9 | Title: | A system of aeronautics, comprehending its earliest investigations, and modern practice and art: Designed as a history for the common reader, and guide to the student of the art. In three parts. Containing an account of the various attempts in the art of flying by artificial means, from the earliest period down to the discovery of the aeronautic machine by the Montgolfiers, in 1782, and to a later period. With a brief history of the author's fifteen years' experience in aerial voyages. Also, full instructions in the art of making balloons
| | | | Creator: | Wise, John, 1808-1879 | | | | Publication: | J.A. Speel, Philadelphia,1850. | | | | Notes: | An enlarged edition was issued in 1873 under title "Through the air." | | | | Call #: | TL515 W812 | | | | Extent: | xvi, [17]-310 p. front. (port.) plates. 23 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Aeronautics -- History | Balloon ascensions -- History | Balloons
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 10 | Title: | Aeronautics in the Union and Confederate armies: with a survey of military aeronautics prior to 1861
| | | | Creator: | Haydon, Frederick Stansbury, 1908- | | | | Publication: | The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore,1941- | | | | Notes: | "Awarded the Mrs. Simon Baruch university prize, 1940, offered by the United daughters of the Confederacy." Bibliographical foot-notes. | | | | Call #: | E492.7 H3 | | | | Extent: | v. plates (part fold.) ports., facsims., diagrs. 24 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Aeronautics, Military | Balloons | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Aerial operations
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 14 | Title: | Astra castra: experiments and adventures in the atmosphere
| | | | Creator: | Turnor, Christopher Hatton, 1840-1914 | | | | Publication: | Chapman and Hall, London,1865. | | | | Notes: | "Roll of the first 500 aeronauts, with the date and place of their first ascents": p. [457]-462. Includes index. "Books hitherto published on aerostation": p. 463-465. | | | | Call #: | TL515 T956 Oversize | | | | Extent: | xxiii, 530 p. : front., illus., plates, ports. ; 32 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Aeronautics -- History | Balloons | Balloon ascensions
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