Mr Cox's Contribution to Science
Anon
Genre: | News-Commentary, Drollery |
Subjects: | Meteorology, Aeronautics, Measurement, Politics |
Reports that James Glaisher has requested 'gentlemen' to record the altitude and azimuth of his imminent balloon ascent, and that the statesman William Cox claimed that he thought the balloon was upright but that its azimuth had 'fallen off'. | |
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