INDEX.
No. Page.
1 Introduction [1]
2 History and Fable [2]
3 Discovery of the Balloon [7]
4 Noted Air Voyages [8]
5 Absence of Danger [11]
6 Charm of Ærial Travel [12]
7 Ærial Voyages Health Promoting [15]
8 Parachutes [16]
9 The Kite [17]
10 Balloons Impracticable [18]
11 Reasons why the Problem has remained Unsolved [21]
12 Fundamental Principles in Flight [23]
13 Weight [24]
14 Surface [26]
15 Power [28]
16 Flying Creatures, their Proportions, Movements [31]
17 Mechanical Practicability of Flight [34]
18 Flying Machines of the Present, their defects [37]
19 The Practical Air Ship of the near Future [43]
20 What Ærostation will Accomplish [48]
21 Closing Remarks [50]
ERRATA.
Page 4, line 4, read "one from Kœnigsberg," for "Kœnigsberg."
Page 4, line 18, read "afterward," for "ago."