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IT has always been an objection to the extensive use of captive balloons for scientific or military purposes, that a wind of moderate strength suffices not merely to depress them considerably from the vertical, but to cause them to jerk, rotate, and oscillate vertically and horizontally in such a manner as to render them either partially ineffective or totally useless.
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ARCHIBALD, E. The Captive Kite-Balloon . Nature 36, 278 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/036278a0
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