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Show First Airship Experimenters. There is little, except tho method of inflation, that distinguishes tho balloon bal-loon of tho twentieth century from tho machino used by M. Pilatro do Rozler, tho first man to trust himself in a balloon, in October, 1783. Ono of his great triumphs was to hover over Paris at tho height of 300 feet for a space of nine minutes. M. Pilatro achieved all his efforts by means of hot air produced by a flro which ho carried in tho balloon Itself, and was almost as daring as an Italian philosopher phil-osopher who took flight on a pair of wings of his own construction from tho summit of tho castl i of Stirling in presenco of King Jame IV. of Scotland. Scot-land. That courageous exporimontor, when picked up from tho ground with a broken leg, accounted for tho collapse col-lapse of his wings by exclaiming to tho sympathetic courtiers that he had mado a mistake In taking some of his feathers from tho creatures of tho barnyard, whose inclination was toward to-ward the earth. Had ho selected them from creatures with a heavenly tendency, ten-dency, like tho eagle, tho experiment would have been successful. He was believed, and suitably rewarded. |