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1Title:  Balloons    
 Creator:  Gibbs-Smith, Charles Harvard, 1909- 
 Publication:  Ariel Press, London,[1956] 
 Call #:  TL617 G44 Oversize 
 Extent:  xvp. col. illus., 12 col. plates. 41 cm. 
 Subjects:  Balloons
 
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2Title:  Free and captive balloons : Part I--Free balloons    
 Creator:  Upson, Ralph Hazlett, 1888- 
 Chandler, Charles de Forest, 1878-1939
 Publication:  Ronald Press Co, New York,c1926. 
 Notes:  Includes index. 
 Call #:  TL610 U696 
 Extent:  xiii, 331 p. : illus., diagrs. ; 22 cm. 
 Subjects:  Balloons
 
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3Title:  Official reports on Signal Corps operations, including ballons, during the Civil War    
 Uniform Title:  War of the Rebellion.    
 Creator:  United States Army. Signal Corps. 
 United States War Dept.
 Publication:  G.P.O, Washington,1899. 
 Notes:  "Reprinted from Official records of the War of the Rebellion series III, vol. III." Compiled by the War Dept. 
 Call #:  UG573 A4 
 Extent:  90 p. ; 23 cm. 
 Subjects:  United States. -- Army -- Signaling | Balloons
 
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4Title:  Military observation balloons (captive and free): a complete treatise on their manufacture, equipment, inspection, and handling, with special instructions for the training of a field balloon company    
 Creator:  Widmer, Emil Joseph, 1889- 
 Publication:  D. Van Nostrand Co, New York,1917. 
 Call #:  U640 .W641 1917 
 Extent:  vii, 151 pages : including frontispiece, illustrations, folded plates ; 20 cm 
 Subjects:  Balloons | Aerial observation (Military science)
 
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5Title:  Wonderful balloon ascents: or, The conquest of the skies : a history of balloons and balloon voyages    
 Creator:  Marion, Fulgence. 
 Publication:  Charles Scribner & Co, New York,1870. 
 Notes:  Translation of: Les ballons et les voyages aâeriens. 
 Call #:  TL616 .M341 1870 
 Extent:  xvi, 218, 32, 6 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm. 
 Subjects:  Balloons | Balloon ascensions
 
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6Title:  Through the air: a narrative of forty years' experience as an aèeronaut. Comprising a history of the various attempts in the art of flying by artificial means from the earliest period down to the present time. With an account of the author's most important air-voyages and his many thrilling adventures and hairbreadth escapes. Also, an appendix, in which are given full instructions for the manufacture and management of balloons    
 Creator:  Wise, John, 1808-1879 
 Publication:  To-day Pub. Co, Philadelphia, New York, [etc.],1873. 
 Notes:  An enlarged edition of the author's "System of aeronautics", issued in 1850. 
 Call #:  TL515 W813 
 Extent:  650 p. : incl. col. front., plates, ports., facsim. ; 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  Aeronautics -- History | Balloons
 
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7Title:  The dominion of the air: the story of aèerial navigation    
 Creator:  Bacon, John Mackenzie, 1846-1904 
 Publication:  Cassell and Co, London, New York [etc.],1902. 
 Notes:  Includes index. 
 Call #:  TL616 B128 1902 
 Extent:  viii, 348 p. : front., plates, facsims. ; 20 cm. 
 Subjects:  Balloons | Aeronautics -- History
 
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8Title:  The dominion of the air: the story of aerial navigation    
 Creator:  Bacon, John Mackenzie, 1846-1904 
 Publication:  D. McKay, Philadelphia,1903. 
 Notes:  Includes index. 
 Call #:  TL616 B128 1903 
 Extent:  viii, 348 p. : incl. front., plates. ; 19 cm. 
 Subjects:  Balloons | Aeronautics -- History
 
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9Title:  A system of aeronautics, comprehending its earliest investigations, and modern practice and art: Designed as a history for the common reader, and guide to the student of the art. In three parts. Containing an account of the various attempts in the art of flying by artificial means, from the earliest period down to the discovery of the aeronautic machine by the Montgolfiers, in 1782, and to a later period. With a brief history of the author's fifteen years' experience in aerial voyages. Also, full instructions in the art of making balloons    
 Creator:  Wise, John, 1808-1879 
 Publication:  J.A. Speel, Philadelphia,1850. 
 Notes:  An enlarged edition was issued in 1873 under title "Through the air." 
 Call #:  TL515 W812 
 Extent:  xvi, [17]-310 p. front. (port.) plates. 23 cm. 
 Subjects:  Aeronautics -- History | Balloon ascensions -- History | Balloons
 
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10Title:  Aeronautics in the Union and Confederate armies: with a survey of military aeronautics prior to 1861    
 Creator:  Haydon, Frederick Stansbury, 1908- 
 Publication:  The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore,1941- 
 Notes:  "Awarded the Mrs. Simon Baruch university prize, 1940, offered by the United daughters of the Confederacy." Bibliographical foot-notes. 
 Call #:  E492.7 H3 
 Extent:  v. plates (part fold.) ports., facsims., diagrs. 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  Aeronautics, Military | Balloons | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Aerial operations
 
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11Title:  Balloons, airships and flying machines    
 Creator:  Bacon, Gertrude, 1874-1949 
 Publication:  Dodd, Mead & Company, New York,1905. 
 Call #:  TL547 .B128 1905 
 Extent:  124 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 19 cm. 
 Subjects:  Aeronautics | Balloons | Airships
 
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12Title:  Lighter-than-air flight    
 Creator:  Glines, Carroll V., 1920- 
 Publication:  F. Watts, New York,c1965. 
 Notes:  Includes index. 
 Call #:  TL605 G651 
 Extent:  276 p. : illus., ports. ; 25 cm. 
 Subjects:  Balloons | Airships | Aeronautics -- History
 
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13Title:  Vom Luftballon zum Zeppelin: ein Stèuck Menschenarbeit den Kindern    
 Creator:  Theuermeister, Robert, 1882- 
 Publication:  E. Wunderlich, Leipzig,1914. 
 Call #:  TL547 T415 
 Extent:  vi, 192 p. : illus. ; 21 cm. 
 Subjects:  Aeronautics -- Juvenile literature | Balloons | Airships
 
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14Title:  Astra castra: experiments and adventures in the atmosphere    
 Creator:  Turnor, Christopher Hatton, 1840-1914 
 Publication:  Chapman and Hall, London,1865. 
 Notes:  "Roll of the first 500 aeronauts, with the date and place of their first ascents": p. [457]-462. Includes index. "Books hitherto published on aerostation": p. 463-465. 
 Call #:  TL515 T956 Oversize 
 Extent:  xxiii, 530 p. : front., illus., plates, ports. ; 32 cm. 
 Subjects:  Aeronautics -- History | Balloons | Balloon ascensions
 
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15Title:  Ballooning as a sport    
 Creator:  Baden-Powell, Baden Fletcher Smyth, 1860-1937 
 Publication:  W. Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh, London,1907. 
 Call #:  TL610 B134 
 Extent:  xx, 135 [1] p. : 3 pl. (incl. front.) ; 20 cm. 
 Subjects:  Balloons | Ballooning | Balloon ascensions
 
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16Title:  Model balloons and flying machines: with a short account of the progress of aviation    
 Creator:  Alexander, John Henry. 
 Publication:  N.W. Henley Publishing Co, Crosby Lockwood and Son, New York, London,1910. 
 Notes:  Includes index. 
 Call #:  TL770 A376 
 Extent:  x, [2], 127 p. : incl. front., diagrs., 5 fold. diagr. at end ; 19 cm. 
 Subjects:  Balloons | Flying machines | Aeronautics | Airships -- Models | Airplanes -- Models
 
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17Title:  My life and balloon experiences: with a supplementary chapter on military ballooning    
 Creator:  Coxwell, Henry Tracey, 1819-1900 
 Publication:  W.H. Allen & Co, London,1887-89. 
 Notes:  Vol. 2 is called "2d series." 
 Call #:  TL620 C879A4 
 Extent:  2 v. : front. (v. 2), 13 pl. ; 19 cm. 
 Subjects:  Coxwell, Henry Tracey, -- 1819-1900 | Balloon ascensions | Balloons | Balloonists -- Great Britain -- Biography
 
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18Title:  The boys' book of airships, and other aerial craft    
 Creator:  Delacombe, Harry. 
 Partridge, E. J.
 Publication:  Grant Richards, London,[1910] 
 Call #:  TL547 D332 
 Extent:  xvi, 288 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. 
 Subjects:  Aeronautics -- Juvenile literature | Aeronautics -- History -- Juvenile literature | Airships | Balloons | Airplanes
 
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19Title:  Trail blazing in the skies    
 Creator:  Dene, Shafto. 
 Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
 Publication:  Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio,1943. 
 Notes:  "A comprehensive account of the company's progress in aeronautics ..." -- Foreword. 
 Call #:  TL724.5 G65D39 
 Extent:  78 p., [16] leaves of plates : front., illus., plates. ; 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company | Goodyear Aircraft Corporation | Aircraft industry -- United States | Aeronautics -- United States | Aeronautics, Military -- United States | Airships | Balloons | Airplanes
 
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