Identifier: germanysfighting00hend (find matches)
Title: Germany's fighting machine; her army, her navy, her air-ships, and why she arrayed them against the allied powers of Europe
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Henderson, Ernest F. (Ernest Flagg), 1861-1928
Subjects: Germany. Heer Germany. Kriegsmarine World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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THE ARINIY 49 phone. I should add to these, automobiles, motor-trucks,motorcycles and simple bicycles. It may not be generally known that as far back as1870 Germany attempted to make regular use of mili-tary balloons, and that two balloons and equipment werepurchased from an English aeronaut. Several ascentswere successfully made with a member of the generalstaff as passengers. Before Paris, however, it provedimpossible to obtain the gas for inflation, and the wholeballoon detachment was dissolved. Fourteen years later,in 1884, regular experiments regarding the taking ofobservations and the exchanging of signals were be-gun. Fifty thousand marks a year were set aside forthe purpose, and so satisfactory were the results that in1887 a regular balloon corps was organized with a ma-jor, a captain, three Heutenants and fifty non-commis-sioned officers and men. The discovery that the gascould be transported in steel cases in a greatly condensedform placed military ballooning on a much secur

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