Coxwell, 1887

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Henry Tracey Coxwell. My Life and Balloon Experiences: with a supplementary chapter on Military Ballooning. London: W. H. Allen & Co, 1887.

Full-text PDF at Internet Archive.

Coxwell's autobiography with significant chapter on military ballooning, touching on national programs: French (Chalais-Meudon), English, Russian, German, and American. Speculates about bombs as well as fighter planes inevitably involved in contesting airspace for bombing (pp. 185–189).


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