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I HAVE read, not without some surprise, the accounts given by the daily papers, stating that the recent experiment at Woolwich had been fruitless. The lessons of the experiment are numerous, although it would have been easy to predict all that happened; but the impressions relating to balloons and ballooning are generally so vague and so incorrect, that I may be justified in trying to summarise the results which were obtained in connection with the siege of Paris, which might otherwise be lost altogether.
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DE FONVIELLE, W. The Woolwich Aëronautical Experiment. Nature 10, 285 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/010285a0
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