ILLUSTRATED
LONDON
GRANT RICHARDS
1904
THE RIVERSIDE PRESS LIMITED, EDINBURG
[CONTENTS]
| PAGE | ||
| Introductory Fable | [1] | |
| CHAPTER | ||
| I. | The Coffee Plantation | [10] |
| II. | Paris—Professional Balloonists—Automobiles | [24] |
| III. | My First Balloon Ascent | [33] |
| IV. | My "Brazil"—smallest of Spherical Balloons | [42] |
| V. | The Real and the Imaginary Dangers of Ballooning | [51] |
| VI. | I yield to the Steerable Balloon Idea | [63] |
| VII. | My First Air-Ship Cruises (1898) | [74] |
| VIII. | How it feels to Navigate the Air | [82] |
| IX. | Explosive Engines and Inflammable Gases | [100] |
| X. | I go in for Air-Ship Building | [114] |
| XI. | The Exposition Summer | [133] |
| XII. | The Deutsch Prize and its Problems | [153] |
| XIII. | A Fall before a Rise | [164] |
| XIV. | The Building of my "No. 6" | [180] |
| XV. | Winning the Deutsch Prize | [190] |
| XVI. | A Glance Backward and Forward | [205] |
| XVII. | Monaco and the Maritime Guide Rope | [217] |
| XVIII. | Flights in Mediterranean Winds | [232] |
| XIX. | Speed | [243] |
| XX. | An Accident and its Lessons | [256] |
| XXI. | The First of the World's Air-Ship Stations | [264] |
| XXII. | My "No. 9," the Little Runabout | [282] |
| XXIII. | The Air-Ship in War | [303] |
| XXIV. | Paris as a Centre of Air-Ship Experiments | [318] |
| Concluding Fable | [327] | |