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Wonderful Balloon Ascents; Or, The Conquest of the Skies
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Fulgence Marion
49
throughout
the
whole
of
France
a
feverish
degree
of
enthusiasm
in
the
art
manifested
itself
Aerial
excursions
now
became
quite
fashionable.
Let
it
be
understood
that
we
do
not
here
refer
to
ascents
in
fixed
balloons,
that
is,
in
balloons
which
were
attached
to
the
earth
by
means
of
ropes
more
or
less
long.
M.
Biot
narrates
that,
in
his
young
days,
when
aeronautic
ascents
were
less
known
than
they
are
in
these
times,
there
was
in
the
plain
of
Grenelle,
at
the
mill
of
Javelle,
an
establishment
where
balloons
were
constantly
maintained
for
the
accommodation
of
amateurs
of
both
sexes
who
wished
to
make
ascents
in
what
were
called
“ballons
captifs,”
or
balloons
anchored,
so
to
speak,
to
the
earth
by
means
of
long
ropes
They
were
for
a
considerable
time
the
rage
of
fashionable
society,
and
it
is
not
recorded
that
any
accidents
resulted
from
the
practice.
Of
course
it
may
be
easily
understood
with
these
safe
balloons
the
adventurous
aeronauts
never
ascended
to
any
great
height.
The
reader
will
find
this
subject
treated
under
the
chapter
of
military
aerostation.
We
are
at
present
specially
engaged
with
the
narrative
of
the
first
attempts
in
aerostation--the
first
experiments
in
the
new
discovery.
We
have
followed
with
interest
the
exciting
details
of
the
first
adventurous
ascents,
in
which
the
genius
of
man
first
essayed
the
unexplored
paths
of
the
heavens.
Yet
a
continued
record
of
aerial
voyages
would
not
be
of
the
same
interest.
The
results
of
subsequent
expeditions,
and
the
impressions
of
subsequent
aeronauts
are
the
same
as
those
already
described,
or
differ
from
them
only
in
minor
points.
No
important
advance
is
recorded
in
the
art.
We
shall
therefore
endeavour
not
to
confine
ourselves
to
the
narrative
of
a
dry
and
monotonous
chronology,
but
to
select
from
the
number
of
ascents
that
have
taken
place
within
the
last
eighty
years,
only
those
whose
special
character
renders
them
worthy
of
more
detailed
and
severe
investigation.
In
order
to
give
an
idea
of
the
rapid
multiplication
of
aeronautic
experiments,
it
will
suffice
to
state
that
the
only
aeronauts
of
1783
are
Roziers,
the
Marquis
d’Arlandes,
Professor
Charles,
his
collaborateur
the
younger
Robert,
and
a
carpenter,
named
Wilcox,
who
made
ascents
at
Philadelphia
and
London.
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