Travels in the AirJames Glaisher R. Bentley & Son, 1871 - 398 من الصفحات |
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... horizontal plan , just as is done in the construction of a globe . These gores were sewn together by hand at the Orleans Station , and by sewing machines at the Northern ; each method had its advantages , the one PREFACE TO THE SECOND ...
... horizontal plan , just as is done in the construction of a globe . These gores were sewn together by hand at the Orleans Station , and by sewing machines at the Northern ; each method had its advantages , the one PREFACE TO THE SECOND ...
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... horizontal currents which sweep it in the direction of their course , and communicate a compound motion we can neither direct nor calculate . The simple inherent motion we can repeat at will . I believe the most timorous lose their ...
... horizontal currents which sweep it in the direction of their course , and communicate a compound motion we can neither direct nor calculate . The simple inherent motion we can repeat at will . I believe the most timorous lose their ...
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... horizontal direction . I rose up in the middle of the car to contemplate the scenery around me . When I left the earth , the sun had set on the valleys ; he now rose for me alone ; he presently disappeared , and I had the pleasure of ...
... horizontal direction . I rose up in the middle of the car to contemplate the scenery around me . When I left the earth , the sun had set on the valleys ; he now rose for me alone ; he presently disappeared , and I had the pleasure of ...
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... horizontally over a surface of country which is disclosed like a grand natural panorama to the eye of the voyager , and ... horizontal explorations of the air have each a range of ex- periences of their own ; the latter give rise to ...
... horizontally over a surface of country which is disclosed like a grand natural panorama to the eye of the voyager , and ... horizontal explorations of the air have each a range of ex- periences of their own ; the latter give rise to ...
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... horizontal direction appears now as far from practicable as it has ever been . We start from a given point to go where chance directs . The compass we carry with us , not that we may steer our course along a given route , but trace by ...
... horizontal direction appears now as far from practicable as it has ever been . We start from a given point to go where chance directs . The compass we carry with us , not that we may steer our course along a given route , but trace by ...
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الصفحة 54 - I then drew up my legs, which had been extended before ine, and took a pencil in my hand to begin observations. Mr. Coxwell told me that he had lost the use of his hands, which were black, and I poured brandy over them. I resumed my observations at 2h 7m, recording the barometer reading at 11-53 inches and temperature — 2°.
الصفحة 53 - Whilst powerless I heard the words " Temperature " and " Observation," and I knew Mr. Coxwell was in the car speaking to me, and endeavouring to arouse me, therefore consciousness and hearing had returned.
الصفحة 53 - I laid my arm upon the table, possessed of its full vigour, but on being desirous of using it I found it powerless — it must have lost its power momentarily ; trying to move the other arm, I found it powerless also.
الصفحة 57 - A fourth was thrown out at four miles on descending ; it flew in a circle, and shortly alighted on the top of the balloon. The two remaining pigeons were brought down to the ground. One was found to be dead ; and the other, a
الصفحة 53 - I dimly saw Mr. Coxwell, and endeavoured to speak, but could not. In an instant, intense darkness overcame me, so that the optic nerve lost power suddenly ; but I was still conscious, with as active a brain as at the present moment whilst writing this. I thought I had been seized with asphyxia, and believed I should experience nothing more, as death would come unless we speedily descended. Other thoughts were entering my mind, when I suddenly became unconscious as on going to sleep.
الصفحة 21 - ... ascent, speaking of the novel sensation at first experienced ; of the extreme coldness and dryness of the air at great elevations ; of the painless death awaiting the aerial traveller who should ascend to an elevation too great for his power of endurance, and compared it to that of the mountain traveller, who, benumbed and insensible to suffering, yields to the lethargy of approaching sleep, and reposes to wake no more. Moral energy in both cases, he stated, was the only means of safety. He then...
الصفحة 57 - ... minutes, and on these considerations the balloon must have attained the altitude of 36,000 or 37,000 feet. Again, a very delicate minimum thermometer read —12°, and this would give a height of 37,000 feet ; Mr.
الصفحة 95 - The azure colour of the sky, though resembling the blue of the first ' order when the sky is viewed from the earth's surface, becomes, as observed by Mr. Glaisher in his balloon ascents, an exceedingly deep Prussian blue, as we ascend to the height of five or six miles, which is a deep blue of the second or third order. 2. The maximum polarizing angle of the atmosphere being 45 deg.
الصفحة 79 - ... greater elevations. At the height of three and four miles the view was indeed wonderful : the plan-like appearance of London and its suburbs ; the map-like appearance of the country generally ; and the winding Thames, leading the eye to the white cliffs at Margate and on to Dover, were sharply defined. Brighton was seen, and the sea beyond, and all the coast line up to Yarmouth. The north was obscured by clouds. Looking...
الصفحة 96 - ... angle is 45°. The faint blue which the sky exhibits at the earth's surface is therefore not the blue of the first order, but merely the blue of the second or third order rendered paler by the light reflected from the aqueous vapour in the lower regions of the atmosphere.