— A balloon fitted with automatic instruments was sent up recently in Paris and came (town safely. The instruments showed that it had risen to 17,000 metres—s6,oooft—or ovei ten miles and »-half. At that height Iho temperature outside the balloon was 102 degrees below zero.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 11918, 17 December 1900, Page 5
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44Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 Otago Daily Times, Issue 11918, 17 December 1900, Page 5
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