Show all for a single balloon goldbeaters Gold beaters skin from six hundred thousand animals Is necessary says spencer st louis mo building B balloons from dead catt cattle lel startling it yet as percival val spencer the hero of 1250 balloon ascents accents and parachute descents explained a few days ago it Is none the less justified in the first place said the world famous aeronaut godl beaters skin to Is a wonderful gas holder it Is far better as well as lighter than varnished fabric india rubber covered silk cotton or any other of the usual balloon fabrie fabrics s every war balloon ordered by great britain is made of this material while the material itself Is made from ascertain a portion of the intestinal membrane of an ox or cow I 1 which would otherwise be wasted thus you have the curious fact act that balloons are built from the waste material teri alof i of dead cattle i A great many cattle have to be killed to make one balloon said the aeronaut six hundred thousand oxen for instance had to die before the balloons which my brothers and myself are making for count lins new airship could be proceeded with I 1 do not mean to say that we had to pay for the slaughter of over half a maglon cattle but we had bad to place e orders for what la Is known as the peritoneal membranes of that number of animals in order to secure what we wanted and then sir mr spencer took the in ter viewer across the lawn at the back of f hla his residence into the balloon hall chere dozens ot of men luen and garla were engaged in the evolution of the balloon for the zeppelin air ship the shins reach mr alf spencer direct from the slaughter houses in a crude form they are carefully soiled sot ted and examined and those regarded as sufficiently good for ballooning purposes are preserved in salt and stored in casks which each hold COO skins these as aa required are spread out on boards anil and by an Ingen ingenious fous and marvelous process are welded er in one homogeneous fabric it Is thus thug said mr spencer that we construct an arabe airtight vessel without seam or sear to hold the hydrogen gas within its confined area with no possibility I 1 ity of leakage or ores escape c a pe we provide an impervious envelope which contains within it the very lifeblood of the air motor without which it could not be steered anti and could not even elen keep itself afloat the arc process ess la is costly and that la Is why goldbeaters gold guld beaters skin la Is not used for ordinary balloons I 1 might mention inen tion however that we in this country are far ahead of other nationalities in the manufacture of gold goldbeaters beaters skin fr aerial purposes and that Is why bount count zeppelin asked us to make the balloon j for his bis new airship |