The Balloon Stone at Ware.
In these days of successful flying machines it is intere-oting to note that at Ware, England, thore is a monument to mark the exact spot where the first aerial traveller descended. It is a rough hewn stono encircled with railings on which is the followgrand eloquent inscription : — " Let Posterity know, and knowing, be astonished, that on the ldth day of September, 1784, Vincent Lunardi, of Lucca, in Tuscany, the first aerial Traveller in Britain, mounting from the Artillery Ground in Lon-
don and traversing the regions of the air for two hours and lifteen minutes, on this spot revisited the earth. On this rude monument for ages be recorded that wondrous enterprise, successfully achieved by the power of Chemistry and the Fortitude of Man, that improvement in Science which the great Author of all knowledge, patronising by his Providence the Invention of mankind, hath graciously permitted to their benefit and His own eternal glory."
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Southland Times, Issue 19232, 19 December 1903, Page 1 (Supplement)
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