Other uses of hydrogen besides ballooning have already been referred to in other chapters.
The discovery by a Kansas chemist of natural sources of helium may make it possible to free ballooning of its great danger, for helium is non-inflammable and almost as light as hydrogen.
He had noticed in his days of free ballooning that to rise the aeronaut had to throw out sand-ballast; to descend he had to open the valves and let out gas.
But the early enthusiasm for ballooning quickly died down to mere curiosity.
Presently entered Leo Stevens himself, a surprisingly young man for such a veteran, scarcely over thirty, the explanation being that he beganballooning as a mere child.
Her first experience of a voyage in the air is memorable for two facts, that it nearly brought destruction to herself and her mother, and drew attention to an important but little-known fact in ballooning science.
I confess I was rather annoyed at Ray's conduct in thus abandoning me at the very moment of my discovery, for here was the ballooning expert Straus bent upon seeing and photographing our newest arm of defence.
A month ago there arrived in England a man named Karl Straus, a lieutenant of the Military Ballooning Department of the German Army stationed at Duesseldorf.
Ballooning had been carried out both as a form of sport and also by the showman as a Saturday afternoon's sensational entertainment, with a parachute descent as the piece de resistance.
At that distance, far from ballooning possibilities, even the high prices demanded by the aeronauts seemed to me of secondary importance.
Obviously they were determined to keep ballooning to themselves as a professional mystery.
Regretfully I gave up ballooningand took refuge in automobiling.
If the maritime experiment promises so much to spherical ballooning it is doubly promising to the air-ship, which, from the nature of its construction, carries comparatively little ballast.
I did not dally a single moment with the idea of an electric motor, which promises little danger, it is true, but which has the capital ballooning defect of being the heaviest known engine, counting the weight of its battery.
To induce others to follow up the difficult and expensive problem of dirigible ballooning I left this 4000 francs at the disposition of the Aero Club to found a new prize.
It is true that spherical ballooning had prepared me for the mere sensation of height; but that is a very different matter.
Indeed, night ballooning has a charm that is all its own.
This proved my greatest triumph, for it was already clear to me that the central truth of dirigible ballooning must be ever: "To descend without sacrificing gas and to mount without sacrificing ballast.
For many the great charm of all ballooninglies here.
The aeronautic or ballooning habit of spiders is the basis of these engineering feats of the Pixies Lycosa and Gossamer.
Captain Templer was an indefatigable worker and he brought the ballooning section to a high degree of efficiency from the military point of view.
Indeed the activity of the German military ballooning section was directly attributable to the Anglo-French achievements therewith.
The caprices of this obstacle are extraordinary, as anyone who has indulged in ballooning knows fully well.
Find out when ballooningoccurs and what is accomplished by it.
There followed, naturally, a lull in the enthusiasm with which ballooning had been taken up, so far as France was concerned.
Few people saw any possibilities in aerostation, in spite of the adventures of the duck and sheep and cock; voyages to the moon were talked and written, and there was more of levity than seriousness over ballooning as a rule.
As a consequence, the feces and gas deposit and lodge at this latter location, producing in so doing the abnormal cavity called ballooning of the rectum, so often found just above the anal tube.
And when the victim of ballooning of the rectum and ignorant operation makes further complaint to the surgeon of the aches and pains, he is consoled by being informed that the end of the spine will have to be removed.
Ballooning Spiders The country boy, or I might say even country baby, who does not know a spider-web when he sees it would be considered a curiosity nowadays.
The ballooning or flying spiders are not confined to any particular species.
We have, of course, recounted only a few of the more noteworthy early ballooning ventures.
Berlin and Paris had virtually become the chief centres of the development of ballooning as a science.
He records an original ballooning exploit, organised at Algiers, which one might have supposed would have caused a great sensation, and to which he himself had called public attention in the local journals.
Among many and variedballooning incidents which have occurred to the writer, there are some which may not unprofitably be compared with certain experiences already recorded of other aeronauts.
Ballooning enterprise and adventure were growing every year more and more common on the Continent.
From this time the tide of events in the aeronautical world rolls on in full flood, almost every half-year marking a fresh epoch, until a new departure in the infant art of ballooning was already on the point of being reached.
For all this, the effort was entirely abortive, and the ballooning corps, as such, dropped out of existence.
Few attempts at ballooning of any kind had up to that time been made in all America.
It was now that the practice of ballooning became a recognised department of military manoeuvres, and a valuable report appears in the above-mentioned papers from the pen of Captain F.
The fact that the American production of observation balloons during our 19 months as a belligerent was a complete and unqualified success makes the story of ballooning in France of particular interest to the American reader.
The next time I come ballooning I'll be a great deal older than I am now," came from Frank.
In the same year Lunardi came to London and ballooningbecame the rage.
After that you can't go ballooning with anybody but the prince, so for at least a month you can have a good time telling me what a jolly good fellow he is.
In the ballooning habit we have the probable explanation of the wide distribution of certain species of spiders which seem at first exceedingly ill adapted for covering large distances.
Having no hold upon the air, this cannot be employed as a fulcrum for regulating its movements, and hence the cardinal difficulty of ballooning as an art of locomotion and its uncertainty, because the air-currents cannot be regulated.
It would be rather dangerous, if ballooning were a common thing, for the aëronauts to throw out stones and old iron, such as are used for the ballast of a ship.
Free ballooning his ship he floated over a farm house, asked them to call the office, waited aloft till a truck came out with additional fuel.
These ballooning principles, early found, are still in use.
The showman, leering avariciously at me out of his shifty eyes, led us on towards the huge ballooning tent, its pennon fluttering darkly against the stars.
It was a solemn occasion; but my mother was a good deal concerned about the lunch, and I with the ballooning lawn sleeves and the two square episcopal finger-tips disposed upon my head.
Our bounder was dashing about on deck, in one of those rain-coats gathered in at the waist and ballooning out into skirts below the waist.
The peasant women sit behind their wares, their home-woven linen skirts, hugely full, and of various colours, ballooning round them.
Of course we feel no wind, for the wind is taking us with it: so that even the cold at any ordinary height and at any season usual for ballooning is not troublesome.
The idea of such a vision is almost enough to make one’s enthusiasm for ballooning equal that of M.
