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MY AIRSHIPS

ALBERTO SANTOS-DUMONT
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 MY AIRSHIPS
The Story of My Life
BY
ALBERTO SANTOS-DUMONT
ILLUSTRATED
LONDON
GRANT RICHARDS
1904
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THE RIVERSIDE PRESS LIMITED, EDINBURG
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 CONTENTS
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Introductory Fable1
CHAPTER
I.The Coffee Plantation10
II.Paris—Professional Balloonists—Automobiles24
III.My First Balloon Ascent33
IV.My "Brazil"—smallest of Spherical Balloons42
V.The Real and the Imaginary Dangers of Ballooning51
VI.I yield to the Steerable Balloon Idea63
VII.My First Air-Ship Cruises (1898)74
VIII.How it feels to Navigate the Air82
IX.Explosive Engines and Inflammable Gases100
X.I go in for Air-Ship Building114
XI.The Exposition Summer133
XII.The Deutsch Prize and its Problems153
XIII.A Fall before a Rise164
XIV.Th                        
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