My Airships: The Story of My Life - Free Audiobook

My Airships: The Story of My Life - Free Audiobook

Author(s): Alberto Santos-Dumont,

Language: English

1 / 26Introductory Fable: The Reasoning of Children

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26 Chapter(s)
  • 1. Introductory Fable: The Reasoning of Children
  • 2. The Coffee Plantation
  • 3. Paris - Professional Balloonists - Automobiles
  • 4. My First Balloon Ascent
  • 5. My 'Brazil'
  • 6. The Real and Imaginary Dangers of Ballooning
  • 7. I Yield to the Steerable Balloon Idea
  • 8. My First Air-Ship Cruises
  • 9. How it Feels to Navigate the Air
  • 10. Explosive Engines and Inflammable Gases
  • 11. I Go in for Airship Building
  • 12. The Exposition Summer
  • 13. The Deutsch Prize and its Problems
  • 14. A Fall Before a Rise
  • 15. The Building of My 'No. 6'
  • 16. Wining the Deutsche Prize
  • 17. A Glance Backward and Forward
  • 18. Monaco and the Maritime Guide Rope
  • 19. Flights in Mediterranean Winds
  • 20. Speed
  • 21. An Accident and its Lessons
  • 22. The First of the World's Air-Ship Stations
  • 23. My 'No. 9,' the Little Runabout
  • 24. The Air-Ship in War
  • 25. Paris as a Centre of Air-Ship Experiments
  • 26. CONCLUDING FABLE: More Reasoning of Children

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The delightful tale of "le petit Santos" as he dances through the sky above the City of Light at the dawn of the aerial age.
A note to the listener: Throughout this story the author makes several references to helpful figures and illustrations. These may be found upon the corresponding pages in the Project Gutenberg e-book. (Summary by Scott Danneker)

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