dc.coverage.spatial | Hornsey (London, England) | en_US |
dc.coverage.spatial | Surrey (England) | en_US |
dc.creator | Unknown | en_US |
dc.date | c. 1851-1874 | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-01-28T16:27:48Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-01-28T16:27:48Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1846-1879 | en_US |
dc.identifier | VBI_000305 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/193279 | |
dc.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. | en_US |
dc.description | For more information about this item, visit https://archivesspace.mit.edu/repositories/2/digital_objects/572 | en_US |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.rights | No Copyright - United States | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/ | en_US |
dc.subject | Winds | en_US |
dc.subject | Navigation (Aeronautics) | en_US |
dc.subject | Ballooning | en_US |
dc.subject | Glaisher, James, 1809-1903 | en_US |
dc.subject | Coxwell, Henry Tracey | en_US |
dc.title | From the observations made by Mr. Coxwell... | en_US |
dc.type | Text | en_US |
dc.publisher.institution | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Libraries. Department of Distinctive Collections | en_US |
dc.type.genre | clippings (information artifacts) | |