The Record of the Aeronaut: Being the Life of John M. Bacon
London: John Long, 1907. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Very Good / No Jacket. Item #016915
Orig. navy cloth. 358 pp. With photogravure portrait and 62 illustrations. Spine sunned, wear to head of rear joint, bumping to corners, ink stain to foot of rear board. Foxing to front matter, blue ink stain at tail edge of first few pages. Stamp of Royal Naval War Libraries to front pastedown. John M. Bacon invented the forerunner of the modern hot-air balloon in England. Bacon promoted the concept of performing military observations with a hot-air balloon that would burn petroleum. His trials in the summer of 1903 were successful, but he did not pursue it further and his work went unnoticed in the ballooning community.[Britannica].
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