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The Aeronauts - A Review
Ballooning had been used to study meteorologically a bit, but it had been largely dismissed as like a fair ground thing. James saddler was the first english person to go up in a balloon in england. He thought that by going up into the skies, we could more about magnetism, er about electricity and chemistry. And he also said it might throw light on the obscure science of meteorology. There's no evidence that luke howard, the cloud guy, went and saw one of saddler balloon saddlers balloon ascents in the mermaid tavern in hackney in august 18 11. But there’s no evidence that he did it. The other thing
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