| Show to the tha north role by balloon an expedition has now been organized to malke make the trip to the north pole by means ofa of a balloon the chief of this adventurous serial trip is AT andree an all engineer at the patent office of sveden and a very able aeronaut sero tero who liag has made mad e a urge farge number of remarkable kable as cents in scandinavia in one of lie he crossed the baltic in a emall balloon the expense which will be about has been defrayed by means of a public subscription crip tion headed by the king of sweden v nho ho has subscribed the balloon will contain cubic meters of gis gas and is bein being constructed at paris under the i immediate direction of la 11 M andres the ascent v n ill take place in tile the month of july from one of the northwestern islands of the archipelago of spitzberg spitzbergen Spitz bergen men M I 1 andrec has had a building constructed ted in S eaten to shelter the balloon during its inflation as it m may a lie be a number n una her of daa daa a before the ind ifill will blow in the direction of tire the pole 11 andres andree will be ac compa bied by 11 nils ekholm alie astronomer nho is now attached as physician to the central Meter meteorological bureau of stockholm the balloon will be constructed ted of double silk and the hie cordage will he be very heavy so BO at as to resist the fiction action produced by the beat of the sun on the balloon M andree has deiseh dei isal a tey acrin in genious contrivance for direct directing direction in the balloon the efficiency of this device has been tested by a trip which lie he took on the of last july it is composed of a rudder ludder ail secured to the apex of the balloon and to the car b by 1 a I rope so that it can move guide rope which can be adjusted to different positions for degrees of the circumference of the ring which i ch is secured to the car the guiding is assisted by means of efthia this guide rope which is allowed to drag on the ground or in tile tho v ater nater the alo with this rudder sail and the guide rope ropa can change the direction of the Ia balloon lIoon at ni will ll 11 in the season reason which af M andres andree has chosen the weather is usually fine in the arctic depons regions and there appears to be no good reason bihy ihy the expedition should not be of great scientific value even if the pole is not reached the most favored of arctic explorers rarely make more than four or five miles a day so that the speed aich can be obtained with a balloon will tend to do ave away y with the great trouble which han has heretofore clocked all the the shortness of the season A great deal of practical value has been accomplished complis hed bed by all the explorers kane franklin rodgers if hall all do da long peary and others but if success can be obtained incalculably greater benefits benefi ts to science may be anticipated as the crown crovo n of such success for the foregoing particulars tic ulars ye tie are indebted to lillus tra tion scientific american Amer icim |
