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II. IN order to discover the laws of the vertical motion, we must suppose that the balloon is resting in perfect equilibrium when on land; which means that the ascending power of the gas enclosed in the balloon is just equal to the weight of the canvas, netting, grapnel, ballast, passengers, &c. Under these circumstances the balloon will not ascend by itself, but it will with all the weight of the sand which may be thrown overboard, if a certain space is left for dilatation and the balloon is not quite full when resting on land. If the volume is V at the surface of earth, it will be at an altitude where barometric pressure is_h, being H at departure. When the balloon is quite full, gas escapes by the lower part under the shape of a whitish steam. If v is the additional volume which can be filled by dilatation, that phenomenon will take place at an altitude where the pressure is h given by the equation
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DE FONVIELLE, W. The Woolwich Aëeronautical Experiment. Nature 10, 461 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/010461b0
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