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From the observations made by Mr. Coxwell...

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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/193279
Date
1846-1879
Description
Article about Henry Coxwell's balloon voyage in which he made the observation that air currents run north to south at high altitudes. This discovery ran contrary to the ideas of unnamed American aeronauts who believed there was a fixed current on which they could travel west to east, across the Atlantic.
 
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Winds, Navigation (Aeronautics), Ballooning, Glaisher, James, 1809-1903, Coxwell, Henry Tracey
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