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[[image]] Attaching the basket

[[image]] Ascension Made Feb 23.

[[image]] Lt. Frank [[?]]
ampaigns. Lowe installed a tele
ee in the basket of his balloon and
ated with officers below through
00 feet or more in length. McClel
the possession of an observation
great value in the peninsula cam
be confederates imitated the fed
me extent in this respect. Commo
es in August, 1862, introduced the 
the naval operations in the
er.

France-German war, which began
as French besieged strongholds
d free balloons to carry new to their
outside. Paris while beleaguered sent
tions of letters by balloon, together
numbers of carrier pigeons, which
return couriers, and thus an almost
stl service was maintained. Gam
o was later to become dictator, as
m Paris in a balloon to establish the 
l government at Tours. Of sev
balloons that were dispatched
only one was brought down by the
dre. When the French army was
d ballooning was included in its
d an experimental balloon station
were established at Chalais-Meu
Captains Renard and Krebs
aerostats that could be
moderate wind. General
ward minister of war, dem
rtance of balloon scouting
vers of 1891, in which 100,000
to one another in mimic
ch derived enormous serv
balloons in their war in 
itish in the Sudan in 1885.

er in Cuba.
American war a captive
eral Shafter, in front of 
n obtaining a correct idea
sition. But owing to im
t it also needlessly drew
on our lines and was the
sualties that could have

carefully trained balloon
as have the French, and
ere used by the former
vantage in the boer war.
is also provided with bal
of the more recent dragon

of the Brazilian, Santos
the dirigible balloon
of the work of Renard and
Meudon. Augusto Severo
shaped aerostat, broader
the Santos-Dumont type,
teered upon a somewhat
The American public
e unsuccessful attempts
of Washington to make
navigate the air.
attained in appara
the surface of the
from balloons and
Caillelet produced
alled photographic
n a continuous film
balloon should pass,
e of sixty miles an
duce the topography
as do the army engi
inutely. Of course,
f data to a general
inestimable.

ortant.

of the arrangements
s that which relates
lifting gas. In al
upply of compressed
bes There are sev

[[image]] The "America" at 

fantry taking up a position on a commanding hilltop, if one can be found. The ordinary height to which the balloon goes is 1,000 feet, but cable enough is attached to it to admit of it going twice that distance. If a change of location is desired one or two men stand up in the base wagon to keep the cable from becoming entangled with anything along the route, and the horses go at a trot across the country, up and down hill, perhaps for miles. When it is desired to lower the balloon for a brief interval a peculiar device is used. A stop [[?]] pole is provided at the middle with a grooved wheel. Half a dozen men seize the pole, three at each end, and press the face of the wheel against the cable, moving steadily in a horizontal direction far enough to bring the balloon down, perhaps quite to the ground. When the balloon is again to be allowed to ascend they retrace their steps, releasing it by degrees.
A balloon to serve continuously in a new kind of aerial bomb-throwingtactics must not only be of the dirigible type, but must be of great buoyancy and force. It must carry heavy ammunition and it must be able to move rapidly and accurately in any desired direction. None of the public experiments thus far made shows that any dirigible airship has been developed to this point. Of course, the plan may be pursued of sacrificing a balloon with each lot of explosives sent aloft to be dropped upon the enemy.

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