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  • The Ortons' Aeronautical Adventures.

Pamphlet
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Authors:
Publication Date:
  • 2011
Publisher:
  • Published by the author
Place of Publication:
Subjects:
Collation:
  • 36pp.
Abstract:
  • An account of the 19th century ballooning exploits of Reuben Davidson Orton, his son Alfred Joseph Henry Orton and Anne / Adelaide Bassett who was to undertake a total of 30 parachute jumps from balloons until her fatal final descent on August 5 1895 over Peterborough.
Class:
  • M pamphlets 226
Notes:
  • (PHY) Illustrated
Publication Date Information:
  • 2011

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