Chapters (512)
- AIROPAIDIA:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- AN ACCOUNT OF THE PLATES; WITH DIRECTIONS FOR PLACING THEM. 1st. An Account of the Plates.
- 2d. Directions for placing them.
- Literal and other Errors proper to be examined, and corrected with the Pen, before the Book is read.
- CHAPTER I.
- CHAPTER II.
- Preparations for the Voyage.
- CHAPTER III.
- ADDRESSED TO AIRONAUTS.
- SIGNS TO BE OBSERVED, WHEN IN THE AIR.
- 2dly. To prevent too precipitate a Fall.
- SIGNS WHEREBY TO JUDGE WHETHER THE BALLOON IS RISING OR FALLING.
- SIGNS OF RISING.
- SIGNS OF DESCENT.
- SIGNS OF PROGRESSIVE HORIZONTAL MOTION.
- SIGNS OF NEW AND SUDDEN HORIZONTAL CURRENTS.
- CHAPTER IV.
- PREPARATIONS FOR ASCENT.
- CHAPTER V.
- ASCENT WITH 20lb. OF LEVITY.
- CHAPTER VI.
- BALLOON VERGING TO THE SEA.
- CHAPTER VII.
- OBJECTION REMOVED.
- CHAPTER VIII.
- CHAPTER IX.
- OTHER AËRIAL SCENES DESCRIBED.
- CHAPTER X.
- CHAPTER XI.
- CHAPTER XII.
- CHAPTER XIII.
- CHAPTER XIV.
- CHAPTER XV.
- CHAPTER XVI.
- BALLOON DESCENDING.
- CHAPTER XVII.
- BALLOON STILL DESCENDING.
- CHAPTER XVIII.
- RE-ASCENT OF THE BALLOON.
- CHAPTER XIX.
- BALLOON STILL RE-ASCENDING.
- CHAPTER XX.
- CHAPTER XXI.
- CHAPTER XXII.
- BALLOON AT ITS GREATEST HEIGHT.
- CHAPTER XXIII.
- AIR WARMER ABOVE THAN BELOW.
- CHAPTER XXIV.
- BALLOON ABOVE THE INFLUENCE OF WATER.
- CHAPTER XXV.
- THIRD BALLOON-IRIS
- CHAPTER XXVI.
- SENSATIONS ACCOMPANYING THE BALLOON.
- CHAPTER XXVII
- USEFUL CONCLUSIONS.
- CHAPTER XXVIII.
- CHAPTER XXIX.
- CHAPTER XXX.
- CHAPTER XXXI.
- CHAPTER XXXII.
- CHAPTER XXXIII.
- CHAPTER XXXIV.
- THE SEQUEL.
- Rixton-Moss, Lancashire, IV. o’Clock P.M.
- CHAPTER XXXV.
- CHAPTER XXXVI.
- CHAPTER XXXVII.
- OF THE WEATHER, IN THE VICINITY OF CHESTER, ABOUT THE TIME OF THE EXCURSION.
- CHAPTER XXXVIII.
- ON CERTAIN APPEARANCES AT DIFFERENT ALTITUDES OF THE BALLOON.
- CHAPTER XXXIX.
- CONJECTURES ON THE CAUSES OF THE CIRCULAR TRANSPARENCY TO A CERTAIN DISTANCE BELOW THE BALLOON, AND OF THE RED LIGHT FROM THE SEA AND RIVERS, WHEN SEEN ABOVE THE LEVEL OF THE SUPERIOR CLOUDS.
- CHAPTER XXXX.
- ON THE EXCESSIVE DIMINUTION OF OBJECTS ON THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH, TO A SPECTATOR SITUATED ABOVE THE REGION OF CLOUD, AT THE BAROMETRIC HEIGHT OF NEAR A MILE AND HALF, PERPENDICULAR.
- CHAPTER XXXXI.
- CONJECTURES ON THE CAUSES WHICH INFLUENCE THE DESCENT OF BALLOONS IN THEIR PASSAGE OVER WATER.
- CHAPTER XXXXII.
- CHAPTER XXXXIII.
- CHAPTER XXXXIV.
- OBJECTION TO THE THEORY REMOVED.
- CHAPTER XXXXV.
- CHAPTER XXXXVI.
- CHAPTER XXXXVII.
- CHAPTER XXXXVIII.
- CHAPTER XXXXIX.
- CHAPTER L.
- CORROBORATING PROOFS OF A DEPRESSION.
- CHAPTER LI.
- CHAPTER LII.
- CHAPTER LIII.
- ON THE MEANS OF SUSTAINING A BALLOON ABOVE THE SURFACE OF THE WATER, BY A TEMPORARY LOSS OF BALLAST: AND OF RECOVERING THE BALLAST.
- A GENERAL OBSERVATION.
- CHAPTER LIIII.
- ANOTHER METHOD OF SUSTAINING A BALLOON OVER WATER, WITHOUT LOSS OF GASS, OR OF BALLAST.
- CHAPTER LV.
- ON THE NECESSITY OF ASCERTAINING THE PROPER MODES OF DIRECTION, BY DIFFERENT AND FREQUENT EXPERIMENTS.
- CHAPTER LVI.
- NEW MODE OF ASCENT, TO DETERMINE THE INSTANT THE BALLOON IS ARRIVED AT ANY GIVEN HEIGHT: TO MEASURE THE HEIGHTS: AND TO ESTIMATE THE DENSITIES OF THE AIR AT THE GIVEN HEIGHTS. ALSO, A METHOD OF ASCENDING TO A FIXED BAROMETRIC HEIGHT: THERE TO REMAIN SUSPENDED IN EQUILIBRIO.
- CHAPTER LVII.
- ON BAL LOONS. THEIR DEFECTS AND FARTHER IMPROVEMENTS.
- CHAPTER LVIII.
- OF THE AIR-BOTTLE BALLOON.
- CHAPTER LIX.
- SUPERIORITY OF THE AIR-BOTTLE TO AN INTERIOR BALLOON.
- CHAPTER LX.
- HINTS FOR THE DIRECTION OF THE BALLOON.
- CHAPTER LXI.
- HINT FOR A VANE-SAIL TO PREVENT THE BALLOON FROM TURNING ROUND, WHILE THE WIND CONTINUES STEADY.
- CHAPTER LXII.
- DEFECTS, IN THE COMPOSITION FOR BALLOONS, REMEDIED. ALSO ON THE COCHUC-VARNISH.
- CHAPTER LXIII.
- ON VARNISHES, CONTINUED.
- CHAPTER LXIV.
- HINTS ON IMPROVEMENT OF THE MACHINERY.
- CHAPTER LXV.
- ON THE UTILITY OF BALLOONS: AN INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER.
- CHAPTER LXVI.
- ON THE UTILITY OF BALLOONS.
- CHAPTER LXVII.
- THE PROCESS OF INFLATION.
- CHAPTER LXVIII.
- CHAPTER LXIX.
- MENSURATION OF HEIGHTS.
- CHAPTER LXX.
- METHODS TO ASCERTAIN THE TRUE HEIGHT.
- CHAPTER LXXI.
- USE AND PRACTICE OF THE FIRST TABLE, IN THE FIRST EXAMPLE.
- The use.
- The 4th Step, applied in the first Example.
- The practice.
- The 5th Step, applied in the first Example.
- CHAPTER LXXII.
- CHAPTER LXXIII.
- USE AND PRACTICE OF THE SECOND TABLE IN THE FIRST EXAMPLE.
- The use.
- The practice. The 7th Step applied in the first Example.
- THE SECOND TABLE.
- THE THIRD TABLE, OR TABLE FOR TENTHS:
- CHAPTER LXXIIII.
- USE AND PRACTICE OF THE FOURTH TABLE, IN THE FIRST EXAMPLE.
- The use.
- The practice. The 12th Step applied in the first Example.
- THE FOURTH TABLE,
- CHAPTER LXXV.
- PRACTICE OF THE SECOND EXAMPLE:
- With a distinct View of the Work. (Ph. Tr. for 1777, Page 579.)
- CHAPTER LXXVI.
- PRACTICE OF THE FIRST TABLE IN THE SECOND EXAMPLE.
- CHAPTER LXXVII.
- PRACTICE OF THE THIRD EXAMPLE,
- CHAPTER LXXVIII.
- PRACTICE OF THE FOURTH EXAMPLE,[134] FOR MEASURING SMALL HEIGHTS.
- CHAPTER LXXIX.
- A CALCULATION TO ASCERTAIN THE HEIGHT OF THE BALLOON ON THE DAY OF ASCENT: ONE BAROMETER AND ONE THERMOMETER ONLY, BEING TAKEN UP INTO THE CAR.
- CHAPTER LXXX.
- HINTS, ON THE CHEAPEST METHOD OF INFLATING BALLOONS, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF DIFFERENT MODELS FOR A GASS-STEAM-ENGINE.
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