Bacon, 1902, Dominion of the Air
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- John Mackenzie Bacon. The Dominion of the Air: The Story of Aërial Navigation. London, Paris, New York & Melbourne: Cassell and Company, Limited. 1902.
Online at Internet Archive and HathiTrust. (Second/American edition?)
Detailed history of ballooning touching on military applications and atmospheric science.
Bacon credits some of the stories of ancient and medieval flying. In the following case he suspects a rocket:
In mediæval times we are seriously told by a saintly writer (St. Remigius) of folks who created clouds which rose to heaven by means of "an earthen pot in which a little imp had been enclosed." We need no more.
Sources
- Brockett 1910, page 81, entry 1129: Bacon, John M. The dominion of the air: The story of aërial navigation. London, [1902], Cassell & Co., 8°, pp. 356, pl. 24. (1129
| Original title | The Dominion of the Air: The Story of Aërial Navigation |
|---|---|
| Simple title | The Dominion of the Air |
| Authors | John Mackenzie Bacon |
| Date | 1902 |
| Countries | GB |
| Languages | en |
| Keywords | aerial navigation, history, ballooning, military, meteorology |
| Journal | |
| Related to aircraft? | 1 |
| Page count | 348 |
| Word count | |
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