Read an account of Alberto Santos-Dumont's first experience with balloon flight in this excerpt from his memoirs.

The balloons were round, but the environmental activists who flew them over Little Cottonwood Canyon hoped they made a point about what a proposed gondola would do to the view. About a dozen ...

Preview hot air balloon jewelry set with large spherical stones without holes - Ideas jewelry from copper wire of Lan Anh ...

Just to make the calculations simpler, I am going to use a cubical balloon instead of a spherical balloon—they are close enough to the same size that it shouldn't matter.

Manned, spherical balloons had been around since the 1780s, but they were hard to steer. By the mid-19th century, however, engines had been developed that could keep heavier-than-air craft aloft ...

Kite balloons, a variant ol the spherical balloons used for sporting purposes, are useful as observation posts for Army and Navy operations alike, and spherical balloons may serve to form a ...

How slight an influence will move spherical balloons floating in space is known by the fact that the addition or subtraction of but a few pounds will cause a considerable rising or sinking.

The weather balloon being inflated at launch - it would become spherical at higher altitudes Twenty-five years later, Dale Sommerfeldt can laugh about the rogue weather balloon that resisted the ...

An open source investigation, however, strongly proposes that the spherical, silvery object captured by the drone is nothing more than a balloon from a local festival.

This first ascent allowed me to appreciate fully the utility of this simple part of the spherical balloon's rigging, without which its landing would usually present grave difficulties.