New scheme for directing balloons


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ABSTRACT M. GABRIEL YON, one of the directors of the great Giffard captive balloon, and Mr. E. A. Pearse of Bristol, have each published a pamphlet on the direction of aërostats. The balloon


of each inventor is to be elongated according to the principles of the experiments tried by Giffard in 1852 and by Dupuy de Lome in 1871. The propeller is to be moved by a gas-engine in the


Pearse balloon, and by a steam-engine in the Yon balloon. M. Yon proposes to use the gas of the balloon as fuel, but only in proportion to loss of weight produced either by uncondensed


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