"Sausage" Captive Balloon
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Title (Dublin Core)
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"Sausage" Captive Balloon
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Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
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Now Appears the Elephant of the Air. The reason for the queer shapes of captive balloons
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Caption: A captive sausage balloon is provided with auxiliary air-bags which serve to steady the balloon. In the latest form these give the structure the appearance of a huge elephant
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GUY FAWKES’ Day in England is
a holiday which remotely resem-
bles our Fourth of July—a day
celebrated to mark the thwarting of a
conspiracy. It was the custom to send
up on Guy Fawkes’ Day balloons which
were effigies of the conspirators. There
were also balloons, sent up at county fairs,
shaped like pigs and cows.
And now comes the French army with
its elephant balloon, which is not inven-
ted for edification, but an earnest effort
to improve the observation balloon.
It was the Germans who invented the
“sausage” captive balloon which is raised
by the wind after the fashion of a kite.
Some countries adopted the sausage bal-
loon and even bought the German manu-
factured product. Others, like France
and Great Britain, obstinately clung to
the obsolete spherical balloon. Then
came the Great War and prejudice was
blown away. The sausage was imitated
at once.
A sausage balloon needs various ap-
pendages to catch the air and to steady it.
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Contributor (Dublin Core)
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Press Illustrating Service (photo)
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1918-04
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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528
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public Domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Filippo Valle
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Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 92, n. 4, 1918
