Technical World Magazine, Volume 12Technical World Company, 1909 |
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... EXPERIMENTAL BALLOON . Scientists have long been testing and charting wind currents by means of such balloons . LEVIATHANS OF THE AIR . INTERESTING MEETING BETWEEN TWO DIRIGIBLES. exceeding that of the swiftest ocean liner . At a point ...
... EXPERIMENTAL BALLOON . Scientists have long been testing and charting wind currents by means of such balloons . LEVIATHANS OF THE AIR . INTERESTING MEETING BETWEEN TWO DIRIGIBLES. exceeding that of the swiftest ocean liner . At a point ...
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... experiments . northern half of the United States . Surface winds vary , indeed , but even these conform in the main to the rule , while at a height of , say , three miles , though there may be a strong east wind blowing on the surface ...
... experiments . northern half of the United States . Surface winds vary , indeed , but even these conform in the main to the rule , while at a height of , say , three miles , though there may be a strong east wind blowing on the surface ...
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... experiments have been carried on is a matter for wonder to the layman . SUCCESSFUL BRITISH WAR BALLOON . THE BOSTON . " C. as if on shipboard , and the course of the balloon was as accu- rately charted . One other balloon only in the ...
... experiments have been carried on is a matter for wonder to the layman . SUCCESSFUL BRITISH WAR BALLOON . THE BOSTON . " C. as if on shipboard , and the course of the balloon was as accu- rately charted . One other balloon only in the ...
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... experiments . Life We live in deeds , not years ; in. SUCCESSFUL BRITISH WAR BALLOON . THE BOSTON . " C. J. GLIDDEN'S BIG BALLOON ,. are quite definitely understood , which open up a field of tremendous possibili- ties in ballooning . One ...
... experiments . Life We live in deeds , not years ; in. SUCCESSFUL BRITISH WAR BALLOON . THE BOSTON . " C. J. GLIDDEN'S BIG BALLOON ,. are quite definitely understood , which open up a field of tremendous possibili- ties in ballooning . One ...
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... experiments have been made to overcome the effects created and the most interesting ever held were conducted by Logan Waller Page , Director of the Office of Public Roads of the United States Department of Agriculture , on Hillside ...
... experiments have been made to overcome the effects created and the most interesting ever held were conducted by Logan Waller Page , Director of the Office of Public Roads of the United States Department of Agriculture , on Hillside ...
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