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(EUUPiy uppruveu.Stephen A. CouuA NEW AIK-SH1P.I'rolt s* or I'iHi iiihii H ill Atn-m|it lo I ross Hie Atlantic I Ills Summer.IFioni the Philadelphia Tele^reph.]There has recently been constructed in the old building, at the corner of Ninth and Fairmont t avenue, formerly occupied by the Philadelphia Scale and Beam Worka, a new ar ship, the ascending power of which will be hot air. The balloon ia about eighty-fivt f- “t in height, and fifty feet in diameter, and will be tn-liated with hot air from in iron furnace or brazier located in the casket.Proiet-or George Colerran, the inv- i.-tor of the air ship, id confidant that th numerous improvements which he had introduced, will enable him to overcome the many difficulties experienced by former itronaur* in inventiona of a similar character. He mates that the balloon will be placed on exhibition on May 10, on which day he intenna to make a public ascension from the Centennial groundsProf. Coleman diapenaea entirely with the UBual net, and aubatitutea in it* •■t ad a aeriea of corda strongly aewed in the different drama of the gas bane. Pulverized coke is the only fuel required, and the enthusiastic aeronaut is confident that he hua hit on the proper means of lerial navigat'on. The experiment il hot air MvJ 1 ba'lpoQ wi*1 b*- used during toe HU’ncu i* for the p'irn • ► of loOfcMpo. the height of the ^Mterly c lt;-,,nt, and '-certaining its velocity. It will tnaklt; three our four ascensions weekly from the vicinity of the permanent exhibition ground*, free to the public, the expense* being contributed by some of our public-apir ted citizen* and corporation*. After a serieH of accessions, the pro(e**or will .Luske an effort to cross the Atlantic ocean, and in thi* undertaking he will be accompanied by some of the principalic-nnauts of the United StatesProfessor Coleman's attempt to cross t e Atlantic ocean will be made at the
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Kansas City Daily Journal of Commerce
Kansas City, Missouri, US
Tue, May 08, 1877
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