Thoughts on the farther improvement of aerostation , Or The art of travelling in the atmosphere: with a description of a machine, now constructing, on different principles from those hitherto adopted. By the Inventor of the machine.

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Thoughts on the farther improvement of aerostation , Or The art of travelling in the atmosphere: with a description of a machine, now constructing, on different principles from those hitherto adopted. By the Inventor of the machine.