Track

One way to guide a balloon is to run it along a track. Sometimes these were envisioned and used for testing new aircraft.

Joseph Mac Sweeny, in the early nineteenth century, suggested using "balloon ways" between towns. First he envisioned ropes, possibly elevated by means of their own gas-filled balloons. Later he suggested wires attached to poles. "The balloon glides along the wire, and in passing over each post raises the wire. When the balloon has passed the wire is caught between the rods, and falls into its former place."

Patents in category Track

• Patent US-1908-890852
• Patent GB-1890-15332 (Applicant person: Alfred Julius Boult)
• Patent FR-1892-221635
• Patent CA-1892-38306
• Patent GB-1867-549 (Applicant person: A. V. Newton)
• Patent NZ-1910-29726
• Patent FR-1888-193341 (Applicant person: Foldvary)
• Patent GB-1895-22011
• Patent NZ-1910-28965
• Patent FR-1894-228892E2
• Patent GB-1843-9642 (Filing date: 1843-02-21)
• Patent GB-1849-12452 (Filing date: 1849-02-06)
• Patent FR-1851-11087 (Filing date: 1851-01-17)
• Patent FR-1863-61056 (Filing date: 1863-12-08)
• Patent GB-1873-245 (Filing date: 1873-01-21)
• Patent GB-1873-2776 (Filing date: 1873-08-21)
• Patent US-1877-194841 (Filing date: 1877-07-23)
• Patent DE-1878-2600 (Filing date: 1878-01-11)
• Patent ES-1887-7348 (Filing date: 1887-02-27)
• Patent CH-1889-589 (Applicant person: Leonardo Torres, Filing date: 1889-02-15)
• Patent DE-1891-56355 (Filing date: 1890-09-30)
• Patent FR-1891-215643 (Applicant person: Lucien Payn, Filing date: 1891-08-22)
• Patent IT-1892-31277 (Filing date: 1892-02-12)
• Patent GB-1892-15691 (Filing date: 1892-09-01)
• Patent GB-1893-17859 (Applicant person: Vicomte Decazes, Filing date: 1893-09-22)
• Patent GB-1894-1445 (Filing date: 1894-01-23)
• Patent CA-1894-45441 (Applicant person: Hosea Waite Libbey, Filing date: 1894-02-07)
• Patent US-1897-589373 (Filing date: 1894-07-16)
• Patent US-1895-536174 (Applicant person: Charles E. Olsen, Filing date: 1894-09-17)
• Patent US-1896-563066 (Applicant person: Thomas Jefferson Rogers, Filing date: 1896-01-18)
• Patent US-1897-586590 (Filing date: 1896-08-28)
• Patent US-1899-620596 (Applicant person: Charles A. Lower, Filing date: 1898-05-07)
• Patent US-1900-653221 (Applicant person: Marie J. Augustin Deydier, Filing date: 1898-08-11)
• Patent CH-1899-18667 (Filing date: 1899-04-08)
• Patent AT-1900-1681 (Filing date: 1899-04-11)
• Patent US-1900-654687 (Filing date: 1899-05-06)
• Patent US-1904-761053 (Filing date: 1902-03-21)
• Patent US-1904-730956 (Filing date: 1902-05-21)
• Gebrauchsmuster DE-1903-212674 (Filing date: 1903-11-05)
• Patent US-1904-893647 (Applicant person: Edward J. Pennington, Filing date: 1904-01-22)
• Patent US-1907-841581 (Applicant firm: Industrial Transportation Company • Washington, DC, Filing date: 1904-10-08)
• Patent IT-1905-75842 (Filing date: 1905-03-02)
• Patent US-1907-863452 (Filing date: 1907-03-23)
• Patent GB-1908-22528 (Applicant person: Lucas Joseph Mayer, Filing date: 1908-10-23)
• Patent FR-1909-405893 (Filing date: 1909-08-10)
• Patent US-1910-975196 (Filing date: 1909-10-11)
• Patent FR-1910-411302 (Filing date: 1910-01-05)
• Patent GB-1910-386 (Applicant person: Édouard Heusch, Filing date: 1910-01-06)
• Patent US-1910-975953 (Applicant person: Iskander Hourwich, Filing date: 1910-03-05)
• Patent US-1910-984667 (Applicant person: John W. Hearst, Filing date: 1910-03-17)
• Patent US-1910-1028010 (Applicant person: Joseph W. Fawkes • Emma C. Fawkes, Filing date: 1910-08-09)
• Patent BE-1911-02-02 Leonardo Torres Quevedo (Applicant person: Leonardo Torres Quevedo, Filing date: 1911-02-02)
• Patent US-1911-1051093 (Applicant person: Joseph W. Fawkes • Emma C. Fawkes, Filing date: 1911-03-09)
• Patent GB-1912-2737 (Applicant person: Leonardo Torres Quevedo, Filing date: 1912-02-02)
• Patent US-1912-1081793 (Applicant person: Melvin Vaniman, Applicant firm: International Aeronautical Construction Company, Filing date: 1912-03-19)
• Patent GB-1915-7534 (Applicant person: Leonardo Torres Quevedo, Filing date: 1915-05-19)
• Patent US-1917-1247010 (Filing date: 1917-03-23)

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