Wonderful Balloon Ascents: Or, the Conquest of the Skies

1870

F. Marion's 1870 history of ballooning, translated for Scribner's Illustrated Library of Wonders. Part one runs from the flying machines of antiquity through the Montgolfiers to the first passenger ascents; part two collects the famous voyages and the accidents; part three covers scientific ascents, meteorology, aerial photography and the use of balloons in war. Twenty-four chapters and a preface.