The Story of My Life
BY
ALBERTO SANTOS-DUMONT
ILLUSTRATED
LONDON
GRANT RICHARDS
1904
THE RIVERSIDE PRESS LIMITED, EDINBURG
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Introductory Fable | 1 | |
CHAPTER | ||
I. | The Coffee Plantation | 10 |
II. | Paris—Professional Balloonists—Automobiles | 24 |
III. | My First Balloon Ascent | 33 |
IV. | My "Brazil"—smallest of Spherical Balloons | 42 |
V. | The Real and the Imaginary Dangers of Ballooning | 51 |
VI. | I yield to the Steerable Balloon Idea | 63 |
VII. | My First Air-Ship Cruises (1898) | 74 |
VIII. | How it feels to Navigate the Air | 82 |
IX. | Explosive Engines and Inflammable Gases | 100 |
X. | I go in for Air-Ship Building | 114 |
XI. | The Exposition Summer | 133 |
XII. | The Deutsch Prize and its Problems | 153 |
XIII. | A Fall before a Rise | 164 |
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