He's got a float and a slew of balloons!
At great heights free balloons seem necessary.
Many novelties, too, such as the field telegraph, balloons and signalling, were employed.
They appealed also to the velocity and dilatation of aeriform bodies, to whirlwinds and inflated balloons.
Flying animals differ entirely from sailing ships and from balloons, with which they are not unfrequently though erroneously compared; and a flying machine constructed upon proper principles can have nothing in common with either of those creations.
