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|Original title=Through the air: a narrative of forty years' experience as an aëronaut
|Simple title=Through the air: a narrative of forty years' experience as an aëronaut
|Authors=John Wise
|Date=1873
|Countries=US
|Languages=en
|Keywords=history; narrative; experience; aeronaut; history; attempts; artificial; author; air-voyages; voyages; adventures; survival; appendix; manufacture; instructions; management; balloons; aeronautics
|Related to aircraft=1
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=== Sources ===
* [[Brockett 1910]], page 897, entry 12948: Wise, John. Through the air: a narrative of forty years' experience as an aëronaut. Comprising a history of the various attempts in the art of flying by artificial means from the earliest period down to the present time. With an account of the author's most important air-voyages and his many thrilling adventures and hairbreadth escapes. Also an appendix, in which are given full instructions for the manufacture and management of balloons. By John Wise.... An enlarged edition of the author's 'System of Aeronautics,' issued in 1850. Philadelphia, New York, [etc.]. To-day Publishing Company, 1873, pp. 650, incl.col. front., pls., ports., facsim., 24 cm. LC (12948