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inieredre-3r-byhe3ini arErtsenht-3Xtisofty.?o-id-m-inch-juViee from my Maker.* *DROPS EGGS FROM BALLOON.Glidden Demonstrates That ExplosivesCan Be Dropped Accurately.PETERBORO, N. H., May 8.—After being in the air for three hours and a quarter and traveling before varying minds for seventy-five miles, the balloon Boston, with Charles J. Glidden of Boston. as pilot and Atherton D. Converse of Winch-enden, as passenger, landed at the foot of New Ipswich Mountain, in Sharon, tonight, only twenty-five miles in an airline from the starting point, Fitchburg,Mess* The Boston ascended at Fitchburg at p,:5,j o'clo k an.l landed at 7:10. The landing place wase remote from any house, and the aeronauts had to walk three miles to get a team to drive them to this town, six miles fur:her on.Mr. Glidden took along a quantity oftl .....eggs to demonstrate the practicability of dropping exolosives accurately upon objects below. After allowing for a peculiar curving of the eggs, the pilot said he was able to drop them upon almost the identical spot chosen from a heightof a mile.n on nnn
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New York Times
New York, New York, US
Sun, May 09, 1909
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