aerostatic
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Origin of aerostatic
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Gay-Lussac saw the same hygrometer standing at 25.3 degrees in his great aerostatic ascent in a stratum of air 7034 feet high, and with a temperature of 39.2 degrees.
From COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 by Alexander von Humboldt
"Unless," said the chief of the aerostatic division, grinning, "Bouchard lends them the use of our own wires through the capital and around by the neutral countries across the Brown frontier!"
From The Last Shot by Frederick Palmer
This first aerostatic journey took place on November 21st, 1783.
From A History of Aeronautics by Evelyn Charles Vivian
Through me, the aerostatic art would render immense services to the world, if God should spare my life!
From A Voyage in a Balloon (1852) by Jules Verne
The "Go-Ahead" was the most perfect type of what had up to then been invented in aerostatic art—she was what an "Inflexible" or a "Formidable" is in ships of war.
From Robur the Conqueror by Jules Verne
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