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Appendix 4
Quotes
First, some words from the past
• “I was surprised at the silence and the absence of movement which our
departure caused among the spectators, and believed them to be astonished
and perhaps awed at the strange spectacle; they might well have reassured
themselves. I was still gazing when M. Rozier cried to me – You are doing
nothing, and the balloon is scarcely rising a fathom.”
Francois Laurent d’Arlandes, who, with Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier,
made the first manned free balloon flight on November 21, 1783 using a
Montgolfier balloon
• “The balloon seems to stand still in the air while the earth flies past
underneath.”
Alberto Santos-Dumont, aviation pioneer
• There’s something in a flying horse, There’s something in a huge balloon.
William Wordsworth, poet
• “Man moves in all modes, by legs of horses, by wings of winds, by steam, by
gas of balloon, by electricity, and stands on tiptoe threatening to hunt the
eagle in his own element.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
M. von Ehrenfried, Stratospheric Balloons, Springer Praxis Books,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68130-2
Appendix 4
Quotes
First, some words from the past
• “I was surprised at the silence and the absence of movement which our
departure caused among the spectators, and believed them to be astonished
and perhaps awed at the strange spectacle; they might well have reassured
themselves. I was still gazing when M. Rozier cried to me – You are doing
nothing, and the balloon is scarcely rising a fathom.”
Francois Laurent d’Arlandes, who, with Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier,
made the first manned free balloon flight on November 21, 1783 using a
Montgolfier balloon
• “The balloon seems to stand still in the air while the earth flies past
underneath.”
Alberto Santos-Dumont, aviation pioneer
• There’s something in a flying horse, There’s something in a huge balloon.
William Wordsworth, poet
• “Man moves in all modes, by legs of horses, by wings of winds, by steam, by
gas of balloon, by electricity, and stands on tiptoe threatening to hunt the
eagle in his own element.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet