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The Balloon Voyage and the Mad Invention
A veteran narrator visits his former college chum, Professor Kingsley, whose airship ascent aims to test a new high altitude respirator. As they rise past 38 000 feet, Kingsley grows mad with ambition, insisting the other man go out to lighten the balloon while the observer fights to prevent disaster. The climax finds the observer disabling the craft and losing consciousness as the valve is opened.
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