The balloon employed on this occasion was called the Entreprenent; and it was under the direction of M.
The second balloon rose again, like a huge glass moon on the opposite side of the Sword.
Meanwhile the scoopships, small only by comparison with her, locked onto the other balloon as it drifted close.
The balloon veered clumsily toward the one free receptor.
The ovoid that was the ship hung against them, lit by the hidden sun, a giant even at her distance but dwarfed by the balloon she towed.
About the balloon tragedy--yes, you heard correctly of my figuring in the matter.
Nothing was known except that the balloon had ascended that morning from one of the city squares, and that, as frequently happened, a party of young people had gone up to get a bird's eye view of the metropolis.
Moon-man, as the balloon began to free itself on its upward flight, "How far off is it?
While they were dropping into poetry, the balloon had been dropping into a wood, and the aeronaut had thrown his grapnel into the branches of a tree.
Don't you remember Wilkins, the Moon-man that I was up in a balloon with?
The balloon shot up and the roar of the crowd became a faint murmur as the planet flew from beneath their feet.
Eradicate had seen, many times, the youthful inventor and his friends make trips in the monoplane, as well as in the big biplane and dirigible balloon combined--the RED CLOUD.
Some were very large--as immense as a great shed in which a dirigible ballooncould be housed--while others were as small as the ice huts in which the Eskimos live.
It's out at the fair grounds, and was used some time ago when they had a balloon ascension here.
There seems a possibility that the great desideratum in the use of the balloon may be obtained.
Being at a height of about six thousand feet, some accident happened to his balloon of inflammable air; it burst, they fell from that height, and were crushed to atoms.
There was a montgolfier combined with theballoon of inflammable air.
It was a wonderfully picturesqueballoon and at first did some little service, captive to a locomotive pushed far to the front.
Previous to the Chickahominy Campaign a balloon had been constructed for reconnoitering.
Now, this accomplished, the plane in which Jack and Pierre had performed this success, driven deep into the flaming mass of wreckage, was falling with the broken war balloon down into the sea.
Three Brave Boys; or, Adventures in theBalloon World.
His father said that he should; adding, that he would like to see the balloon go up very much.
It is used for equestrian performances, and feats of strength and agility, and balloon ascension, and all similar entertainments.
Would you believe it, I found that my last bullet was the one with which I had saved the balloon from the Prussian shot?
My servant had had the foresight when getting the balloon ready to include, among the things put into the car, a small coop in which were six pet chickens I owned, and without which I never went anywhere.
You see two weeks in a balloon over a vast desert of sand, with nothing to do but whistle for a breeze, is equal to four weeks anywhere else.
The fish we caught when our balloon stood over the sea, baiting our anchor with pieces of rubber gas pipe used to inflate the balloon, and which looked very much like worms.
I threw out a bag of sand ballast so that the balloon would rise just out of range of their guns, and then, as their bullets got to their highest point and began to drop back, I reached out and caught them in a dipper.
Three months off in the country sleeping all day long and playing tricks all night seems a very short time, but three months in a balloon and the constant centre of attack from every source is too long for comfort.
We had noticed a little nervously that although a German observation balloon was looking into Ronssoy, a crowd of orderlies and officers were collected in the road outside the headquarters.
Although in the far distance we could just see a German balloon and Arras still was shelled, we were not unduly disturbed by the enemy.
Andrée's balloon was made of 3360 pieces of silk sewn together with three miles of seams.
The balloon was taken on shipboard to Spitzbergen and there inflated in a tall shed built for the purpose.
It is known, from a message sent by a pigeon, that two days later all was well and the balloon still moving towards its goal.
Balloon aeronautics became popular in 1898, when Santos-Dumont, a wealthy young Brazilian, performed a series of spectacular feats with his dirigible balloon.
Numerous airships of the dirigible type made their appearance and many balloon factories were established.
A dirigibleballoon usually has an elongated envelope and is equipped with a motor and a rudder by which it can be steered at will against a moderate wind.
The science of balloon aeronautics dates definitely from 1783, when the Montgolfier brothers at Angonay in France constructed their first balloons.
The balloon in time came to be adopted throughout Europe for military uses, mainly for the purpose of spying out the enemy's position and defenses.
A balloon is an apparatus with an envelope filled with gas, the specific gravity of which is less than that of the atmosphere near the surface of the earth.
It is a joke in the neighborhood that the professor plants his balloon crop in the spring, gathers it in the fall, and stores it away through the winter.
Suppose we begin with the balloon farm, which is certainly a queer place.
And sure enough he did find it, only it turned out to be a stout rope, and he tugged at it valiantly until the valve opened and the balloon began to descend, just as the story-book said it would.
The balloon is always standing still to the person in it, while the earth rushes madly along, forty, sixty, ninety miles an hour.
I know nothing like the peace of a balloon sweeping in a storm.
Now the wriggling process is reversed; and this time the basket goes first, "tail wagging the dog," and the balloon descends.
Three guy-ropes hold theballoon steady like legs of an enormous tripod, and straight down from the netting a fourth rope hangs free.
It was some years ago, at the Syracuse County Fair, and a balloonrace had been advertised between Carlotta and young Tysdell, an assistant of Professor Myers.
At the weekly meeting of the Balloon Society on the 6th inst.
If a captive balloonshould refuse to inflate, And should linger too long flopping loose on the grass, Just insert an M.
And theballoon once more continued its progress amidst a perfect salad of the elements.
The Traveller from the Earth left hisballoon and trod the cloud that seemed prepared to receive him.
Of all the mean and contemptible things anybody can do, I think the worst is to shoot at a fellow up in a balloon or an aeroplane.
You mean the time Andy Bird found his long-lost father, whose balloon left him a prisoner in such a queer way?
The lower end of this rope was then seized by natives, active and strong, who ran along, pulling the balloon above them.
This was a captive balloon not employed for independent ascensions, and from some of the officers, who were my friends, I procured it for my projected tiger hunt.
There was no wind; the balloon hung almost motionless.
The balloonwas rising with considerable force, but I could hold it; I was very heavy.
So we both were quiet; but the balloon did not drift: there was no wind.
The sun was now very hot; the gas was expanding; the balloon was rising higher and higher and higher.
The great overhanging balloon sheltered us from the sun; we leaned over the side of the car, surveyed the landscape, and breathed the fresh morning air.
He looked up at us, and he looked down at the end of the rope, a yard or two of which was moving about like a snake as the balloon veered a little this way and that.
It was not so when I went in a balloon to hunt tigers.
I was a large man and I was heavier than the tiger; with its reduced weight the balloon was slowly going upward.
The gas was still condensing, the balloon was slowly descending.
All the gold had withered out of the sky, and the balloon had disappeared.
But at a certain stage of prosperity, as in a balloon ascent, the fortunate person passes through a zone of clouds, and sublunary matters are thenceforward hidden from his view.
Illustration: A man holding a balloon with a face on it, blown up, and six people laughing at the sight.
He designed a balloon of twelve feet diameter: for he knew that one of less size would not have power enough to carry up the weight of a man.
Then it can go no further, and the weight of the balloon itself will bring it down again.
These thoughts, as we have said, arose on the morning of the second day succeeding that on which the balloon had been abandoned.
Yes; and then the balloon would sink back to the earth from the air inside getting cooled, and becoming as heavy as that without.
It may be asked why they had not entertained the thought, and endeavoured to carry it into practical effect: since a balloon would have been far more likely to have delivered them out of their "mountain prison" than a paper kite?
He even tried faggots of the resinous pine: in hopes that by obtaining a greater strength of caloric he might still succeed in causing the balloon to soar upward; but there was no perceptible difference in the effect.
Even a paper balloon can be constructed to take up a few pounds--a cat, or a small dog; and people in many countries have been cruel enough to dispatch such creatures into the air, not caring what became of them.
The flames ran upward, licking the oily eel-skins like the tongues of fiery serpents; and when the ci-devant aeronauts looked back from the door of their hut, they perceived that the balloon was ablaze!
Karl believed that there would be little chance of the balloon having sufficient power to take up all three of them, their united weight being over four hundred pounds.
More hot air being admitted, the cooler atmosphere within would be expelled, the balloon would become lighter than the surrounding air, and by the simple principle of atmospheric pressure it would ascend into the air.
Sharp work was done in handling the spinnaker, for just one minute after rounding this big balloon was set and pulling.
The further on the two yachts went the lighter became the wind, and each in turn ran into “soft” spots, when balloon top-sails hung up and down idly.
Baby jib top-sails had been sent down before the rounding, and spinnaker poles were now ready for the balloon sail.
Who ever heard of a trained seal carryin' a balloon in his teeth?
In desperation, he held the balloon on his nose with one hand and tried to creep ahead with but one arm and his legs as motive power.
Then, of course, the balloon fell off and Jerry was almost in tears as he jumped after it.
He can have a ball of carpet rags for a balloon to balance on his nose.
He threw down his carpet-rag balloon, took off the gunny-sack apron, tossed it on top of the balloon and ran to the house.
There was no fun in being a trained seal balancing a balloon on its nose, as there was in being a green elephant with floppy ears and wobbly tail and trunk.
The trained seal jumped up on his hind feet carrying the balloon under a forefoot, and ran until he caught up with Celia Jane; then he plumped down on his stomach again.
The balloon won't stay on my nose and my neck hurts and I've cut my hand on a piece of glass or a splinter or something till it bleeds.
I guess his teeth would go through the balloon and let all the air out.
The reason for that was this: Once Jumpo's mamma bought him a green balloon at the circus.
But Dickie Chip-Chip, the sparrow boy, got to the stump first, because he could go through the air like a balloonor an airship.
One day near Evereux the company to which Paul belonged saw a balloon coming towards them and a cloud of dust on the road far below showed them that a party of Uhlans were pursuing.
The balloon descended but a short distance from thee scene of the engagement and was found to contain a man named Du Norof.
