Airopaidia: or Aërial Recreation

About this eBook

Author

Baldwin, Thomas, 1742-1804

Title

Airopaidia : Containing the narrative of a balloon excursion from Chester, the eighth of September, 1785, taken from minutes made during the voyage; hints on the improvement of balloons ... To which is subjoined, mensuration of heights by the barometer, made plain; with extensive tables. The whole serving as an introduction to aërial navigation.

Original Publication

United Kingdom: J. Fletcher, 1786.

Credits

Tim Lindell, Robert Tonsing, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

TL: Technology: Motor vehicles, Aeronautics, Astronautics

Subject

Balloons -- Early works to 1800

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 74910

Release Date

December 15, 2024

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.AIROPAIDIA :
2. 2.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.
3. 3.CHAPTER I.
4. 4.CHAPTER II. — Preparations for the Voyage.
5. 5.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.
6. 6.CHAPTER IV. — PREPARATIONS FOR ASCENT.
7. 7.CHAPTER V. — ASCENT WITH 20lb. OF LEVITY.
8. 8.CHAPTER VI. — BALLOON VERGING TO THE SEA.
9. 9.CHAPTER VII. — OBJECTION REMOVED.
10. 10.CHAPTER VIII.
11. 11.CHAPTER IX. — OTHER AËRIAL SCENES DESCRIBED.
12. 12.CHAPTER X.
13. 13.CHAPTER XI.
14. 14.CHAPTER XII.
15. 15.CHAPTER XIII.
16. 16.CHAPTER XIV.
17. 17.CHAPTER XV.
18. 18.CHAPTER XVI. — BALLOON DESCENDING.
19. 19.CHAPTER XVII. — BALLOON STILL DESCENDING.
20. 20.CHAPTER XVIII. — RE-ASCENT OF THE BALLOON.
21. 21.CHAPTER XIX. — BALLOON STILL RE-ASCENDING.
22. 22.CHAPTER XX.
23. 23.CHAPTER XXI.
24. 24.CHAPTER XXII. — BALLOON AT ITS GREATEST HEIGHT.
25. 25.CHAPTER XXIII. — AIR WARMER ABOVE THAN BELOW.
26. 26.CHAPTER XXIV. — BALLOON ABOVE THE INFLUENCE OF WATER.
27. 27.CHAPTER XXV. — THIRD BALLOON-IRIS
28. 28.CHAPTER XXVI. — SENSATIONS ACCOMPANYING THE BALLOON.
29. 29.CHAPTER XXVII — USEFUL CONCLUSIONS.
30. 30.CHAPTER XXVIII.
31. 31.CHAPTER XXIX.
32. 32.CHAPTER XXX.
33. 33.CHAPTER XXXI.
34. 34.CHAPTER XXXII.
35. 35.CHAPTER XXXIII.
36. 36.CHAPTER XXXIV. — THE SEQUEL. — Rixton-Moss, Lancashire , IV. o’Clock P.M.
37. 37.CHAPTER XXXV.
38. 38.CHAPTER XXXVI. — CHAPTER XXXVII. — OF THE WEATHER, IN THE VICINITY OF CHESTER, ABOUT THE TIME OF THE EXCURSION.
39. 39.CHAPTER XXXVIII. — ON CERTAIN APPEARANCES AT DIFFERENT ALTITUDES OF THE BALLOON.
40. 40.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.
41. 41.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.
42. 42.CHAPTER XXXXI. — CONJECTURES ON THE CAUSES WHICH INFLUENCE THE DESCENT OF BALLOONS IN THEIR PASSAGE OVER WATER.
43. 43.CHAPTER XXXXII.
44. 44.CHAPTER XXXXIII.
45. 45.CHAPTER XXXXIV. — OBJECTION TO THE THEORY REMOVED.
46. 46.CHAPTER XXXXV.
47. 47.CHAPTER XXXXVI.
48. 48.CHAPTER XXXXVII.
49. 49.CHAPTER XXXXVIII.
50. 50.CHAPTER XXXXIX.
51. 51.CHAPTER L. — CORROBORATING PROOFS OF A DEPRESSION.
52. 52.CHAPTER LI.
53. 53.CHAPTER LII.
54. 54.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.
55. 55.CHAPTER LIIII. — ANOTHER METHOD OF SUSTAINING A BALLOON OVER WATER, WITHOUT LOSS OF GASS, OR OF BALLAST.
56. 56.CHAPTER LV. — ON THE NECESSITY OF ASCERTAINING THE PROPER MODES OF DIRECTION, BY DIFFERENT AND FREQUENT EXPERIMENTS.
57. 57.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.
58. 58.CHAPTER LVII. — ON BAL LOONS. THEIR DEFECTS AND FARTHER IMPROVEMENTS.
59. 59.CHAPTER LVIII. — OF THE AIR-BOTTLE BALLOON.
60. 60.CHAPTER LIX. — SUPERIORITY OF THE AIR-BOTTLE TO AN INTERIOR BALLOON.
61. 61.CHAPTER LX. — HINTS FOR THE DIRECTION OF THE BALLOON.
62. 62.CHAPTER LXI. — HINT FOR A VANE-SAIL TO PREVENT THE BALLOON FROM TURNING ROUND, WHILE THE WIND CONTINUES STEADY.
63. 63.CHAPTER LXII. — DEFECTS, IN THE COMPOSITION FOR BALLOONS, REMEDIED. ALSO ON THE COCHUC-VARNISH.
64. 64.CHAPTER LXIII. — ON VARNISHES, CONTINUED.
65. 65.CHAPTER LXIV. — HINTS ON IMPROVEMENT OF THE MACHINERY.
66. 66.CHAPTER LXV. — ON THE UTILITY OF BALLOONS: AN INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER.
67. 67.CHAPTER LXVI. — ON THE UTILITY OF BALLOONS.
68. 68.CHAPTER LXVII. — THE PROCESS OF INFLATION.
69. 69.CHAPTER LXVIII.
70. 70.CHAPTER LXIX. — MENSURATION OF HEIGHTS.
71. 71.CHAPTER LXX. — METHODS TO ASCERTAIN THE TRUE HEIGHT.
72. 72.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.
73. 73.CHAPTER LXXII.
74. 74.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:
75. 75.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,
76. 76.CHAPTER LXXV. — PRACTICE OF THE SECOND EXAMPLE: — With a distinct View of the Work. (Ph. Tr. for 1777, Page 579.)
77. 77.CHAPTER LXXVI. — PRACTICE OF THE FIRST TABLE IN THE SECOND EXAMPLE.
78. 78.CHAPTER LXXVII. — PRACTICE OF THE THIRD EXAMPLE,
79. 79.CHAPTER LXXVIII. — PRACTICE OF THE FOURTH EXAMPLE,⁠ [134] FOR MEASURING SMALL HEIGHTS.
80. 80.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.
81. 81.CHAPTER LXXX. — HINTS, ON THE CHEAPEST METHOD OF INFLATING BALLOONS, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF DIFFERENT MODELS FOR A GASS-STEAM-ENGINE. — I. — II. — III. — IIII. — V. — VI.
82. 82.An alphabetical index of the contents :

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