Evening Star Newspaper, June 27, 1933, Page 36

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The history of antiquity contains many legends of men who tried to leave {the earth with their human bodies. | This history of man’s attempt to con- | quer the air and fly like birds comes nce. Many tried. None suc- ceeded. Leonardo da Vincl, fifteenth century Italian painter, sculptor, architect and engineer, was the first to study the problem from a scientific point of view. He saw the possibility of success, but lacked the means of execution. Montgolfiers Succeed. But it wasn't until June 5, 1783, that the brothers, Joseph Michel and Jacques | § Etienne Montgolfier, Frenchmen, suc- ceeded in the realization of one of man’s oldest drea Thy brothers had ob- served the suspension of clouds in the atmosphere and proceeded to inflate a large light bag with smoke from a fire | | placed underneath. Their experiment | succeeded, although they did not know | at the time that it was the lightness of heated air as compared to an equal volume of air at a lower temperature that caused their balloon to ascend. Feverishly, experiments were made to make the balloon more practical and to enable it to carry human beings. Later in the same year Joseph Mont- | Tled & sheep, a cock and a duck. They | were stil alive when the balloon came | down. the same year the French Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles, designed a balloon which was inflated by hydrogen gas. This air ’vehiule was a success and was like a { modern free balloon in that it had a | valve, net and appendage through | which an excess of gas could escape. | King of Air for Century. i ,, The free balloon remained king of stgemalx for a century. It anmnefi in e cases even military importance, being used during the Franco-Prussian | War in the siege of Paris in 1870-1871. Then King Balloon got a big brother, the dirigible of Count Zeppelin. Then | came the balloon’s little brother, the ‘v.lrphne. This little brother was very | small at first, but soon he could fly ‘higll‘:er than his bigger brothers. T many years the limit to which either plane or balloon could rise was | mot dictated by mechanical construc- | ton of either craft, but by the human ;mclpsclty to breathe the rarefied air of the upper atmosphere. It was dis- covered that if the rarefied air is re- & much thinner atmosphere. Even then the limit of human en- durance is soon reached because pure oxygen is insufficient to maintain life | :':eerbeent.thhe ;!lmasp:::c pressure is only - an 05} %:5 po':ndéto - Phere, or about lon terrific suffering from cold was inflicted on the pioneers of high alti- tudes. This cold was even worse for the aviator than for the balloonist. Balloon Was Chosen., il 1634 Conn. Ave. Near 20th Special Daily Dinner 55¢ Regular Dinners. .75¢ s:'nd‘:l.oo Luncheon We serve fresh vegetables, South- ern hot ds and home cooked desserts. your dinner on our povular terrace. In 1931 my brother, Auguste - card, of the University of Brus;‘lcs sought to measure the cosmic rays at an altitude never before reached by man. For the modern engineer and physicist, it was not too difficult to de- | sign a closed gondola, in which normal living conditions could be maintained, {and in which a small but modern | Paysical laboratory could be built. For lifting this laboratory, Prof. Piccard | chose the free balloon. It is true the | alrplane had taken away the altitude | record from the free balfoon. But my | brother is & free-balloon pilot, and had already used the balloon for re- | search work in physics. | He modified the free balloon to en- | able it'to rise to an altitude where the | lifting power of the air is only one- tenth of what it is at the sea level. I} | An ordinary balloon would never rise 4} | to the heights at which he intended "YOUR CAR Ford PLYMOUTH d Bmall 4-Cyl. Car Overhauled Materials Incladed *30 $10 CASH )| | to_measure the cosmic rays. It was 3 \eridem his balloon should not be fully | inflated before the start. This necessi- ‘lzelied the use of a balloon without a net. The occupants of the air-tight cabin | must be able to release ballast and|é& ( | hydrogen for the conduct of the flight. ! | So the stratosphere balloon was in- vented. Full credit must be given to the Belgian ! cherches Scientifiques (National Fund ¢ for Scientific Research), (| possible the first free balloon flight | into the stratosphere. Made Two Ascents. Auguste Piccard rose into the strato- | 3 ( sphere, May 27, 1931, and made valu- j | able measurements of cosmic | Again. more measurements were made "in 1932, when he made a second as- Il | cension. 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In addi- | § Fonds National de Re- |3 for making | 3 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. the construction of the balloon and gondola, the designs for which were submitted by my brother. In many respects the coming flight is & University of Chicago flight. Dr. Forest A. Moulton,' former professor at the University of Chicago, conceived the idea. Dr. Irving Muskat, research associate at the university, in charge of pure science exhibits at the exposition, conducted most of the negotiations. Dr. Arthur H. Compton, professor of physics at the university, designed the new apparatus for the measurement of cosmic rays. These are now being made in the laboratories of the univer- sity. I, who will perhaps be the ob- server of the cosmic rays, am a former July Clean Sweep of Odd Dining Suites A well-built and modern suite of ten pieces—solid oak construction. 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