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 1 I    | obstreperous use?~No! There was no balloon and there were no aeronauts.
 2 III  |            the name of the monster balloon.~How large was Nadar’s Géant?
 3 III  |          How large was John Wise’s balloon? Twenty thousand cubic meters.
 4 III  |          How large was the Giffard balloon at the 1878 Exhibition?
 5 III  |      justifiably proud of it.~This balloon not being destined for the
 6 IV   |          Robur continued: “What? A balloon! When to obtain the raising
 7 IV   |     require a cubic yard of gas. A balloon pretending to resist the
 8 IV   |  hundredweight on a square yard. A balloon, when on such a system nature
 9 IV   |       first appearance of the fire balloon, “It is but a child, but
10 IV   |            the making of a monster balloon. And so propositions of
11 IV   |        bird flies, and he is not a balloon, he is a piece of mechanism!”~“
12 V    |         off in the “Go-Ahead,” the balloon of the Institute, for all
13 VIII |           aviation. That is what a balloon will never do, nor will
14 IX   |         gazed at from the car of a balloon or deck of an aeronef. It
15 XI   |           long a flight, or like a balloon which has to descend for
16 XVII |         who were lost at sea! What balloon, perfect as it might be,
17 XX   |   propellers she was an unguidable balloon. The fugitives on the shore
18 XXI  |           the screw behind for our balloon the “Go-Ahead.” (Marks of
19 XXII |           to the greatest height a balloon could attain; her impermeability
20 XXII |          somewhat like that of the balloon used by Krebs and Renard;
21 XXII |        Gifford filled the enormous balloon. And as the capacity of
22 XXII |        never been any doubt that a balloon could he guided in a calm
23 XXII |  inappropriate comparison, for the balloon was somewhat of the shape
24 XXIII|       atmosphere and had burst the balloon, which, half inflated still,
25 XXIII|     remained stationary, while the balloon, quite empty of gas, fell