Replacing the crew of an observation ballon used on ships to detect mines
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Replacing the crew of an observation ballon used on ships to detect mines
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Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
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Dropping the Pilot - 1919 Version
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HANGING in midair, this daring man is one of tho crew of tvo of a
great observation balloon which has been towed above a ship to give
a gull’s-eve view of the steamship track, lest any vagrant mine cause a
post-war disaster. It is something of a job to haul down one of these
balloons, and so they change watches in the basket by sending men
from balloon to ship or from ship to balloon by this breeches-buoy
arrangement.
If this exchange of men is possible with a captive balloon, why isn’t
it possible for a dirigible, say of the “blimp” type, to sail over a steam-
ship, drop a mooring-line aboard, send down a breeches-buoy tackle, and
transfer a man from blimp to steamship? And why shouldn't that man
be a pilot, ready to show the ship the way into port while the blimp
pilot-boat-wise sailed on to deliver pilots to other incoming vessels?
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Contributor (Dublin Core)
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International Film Service (image copyright))
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1919-06
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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26
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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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Davide Donà
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 94, n. 6, 1919
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