Academy of Sciences, Paris, 1.1, 8.1
Aéronaute, L’ (illustrated review), 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Aeronautic Amphitheatre, New York
Aeronautical Exhibition, Third, Paris (1812)
Aeronautical Society of Great Britain
Age of Wonder, The (Richard Holmes), 1.1n
airships (dirigibles), 7.1n, 10.1, 11.1
Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, 1.1, 2.1n, 6.1n, 6.2n, 11.1n
Alexander, Lieutenant Colonel Edward
Alps: crossed by balloon, 7.1, 7.2n
altitude: effects of, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4n, 8.5, 8.6
American Civil War (1861–65): balloons in, 6.1; blacks in, 6.2n; lack of aerial photographs, 6.3, 7.1, 7.2
Anderson, Maxie and Kristian, n
Anderson-Abruzzo Albuquerque International Balloon Museum, n
Andrée, Salomon: qualities, 1.1, 11.1; plans to reach North Pole, 11.2; first expedition, 11.3; second expedition, 11.4, epl.1; lands Eagle on ice, 11.5; trek across ice, 11.6; body found, 11.7
Andrée, Wilhelmina (‘Mina’), 11.1, 11.2
Appleyard & Hetling (map publishers)
Arago, François, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, epl.1
Arlandes, François Laurent, Marquis de, n
Armand Barbès (balloon), 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
Atlantic (balloon), 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 6.1, 6.2
Atlantic Ocean: Green proposes flight over, 3.1; American prospective crossings, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 11.1; cable, 5.5; first balloon crossing (1978), 6.1n
Australia: Victorian balloon flights in, 4.1; hot-air ballooning, 4.2n
Australian (balloon), 4.1
Baldwin, Thomas: Airopaedia, or Narrative of a Balloon Excursion from Chester
Ballon-poste, Le (airmail newspaper)
ballooning: enigmatic meaning and purpose, 1.1, 5.1; earliest experiments, 1.2n; Victorian recreational, 3.1; Victorian journalistic accounts of, 4.1; health benefits, 5.2; scientific, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 9.1; and altitude effects on humans, 8.6, 8.7, 8.8, 8.9n, 8.10, 8.11; Glaisher on moral values of, 8.12; French poetic attitude to, 9.2, 9.3; decline, 11.1
balloons: and view of earth, 1.1; qualities, 1.2; history and development, 1.3; military use, 1.4, 1.5, 2.1, 6.1; tethered, 1.6; lifting power, 1.7n; navigation and steering problems, 1.8, 10.1, 11.1; fanciful shapes, 2.2, 2.3; scientific use, 2.4; mail carrying in USA, 5.1; in American Civil War, 6.2, 6.3; photographs from, 6.4, 7.1; in fiction, 7.2, 11.2; altitude records, 8.1, 8.2, 10.2; frighten animals and small children, 9.1; in siege of Paris (1870–1), 10.3, 10.4, 10.5; named by French in Franco-Prussian War, 10.6; lost and captured during Paris siege, 10.7, 10.8; memorial (Paris), 10.9
Barometer World museum, Okehampton, Devon
Benjamin Franklin Institute, Philadelphia
Bird Man of Alcatraz, The (film), 1.1n
Bismarck, Prince Otto von, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
Blackwood’s (magazine), 8.1, 8.2
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre: imprisoned, 1.1n; traverses Channel, 1.2, 1.3; demonstrates flights, 1.4, 11.1; marriage to Sophie, 2.1; influence on US balloonists, 5.1
Blanchard, Sophie, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 6.1, 9.1n, 11.1
‘box’ see air ‘box’
Brickhill, Paul: Reach for the Sky, 3.1n
British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS), 4.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5
Brunhoff, Jean de: Le Voyage de Babar
Bruno, Jean: Les Aventures de Paul enlevé par un ballon, 7.1, 9.1n
Burke, Robert O’Hara and William John Wills
butterflies: Flammarion observes from balloon
‘Caelum certe patet, ibimus illi’ (motto)
Carli, Father Adelir Anonio de (‘Padre Baloneiro’)
Carlyle, Thomas, 5.1; The French Revolution, 3.1
Cavallo, Tiberius: recommends coal gas, 3.1; A Treatise on the History and Practice of Aerostation, 1.1
Céleste, Le (balloon), 10.1, 10.2
Channel (English), traversed by balloon
Charles, Dr Alexander, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3n, 2.1, 2.2
Charles, Monsieur (Paris restaurateur)
Charlier, Anna, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 11.7, epl.1
Cincinnati Daily Commerce (newspaper)
City of New York (balloon) see Great Western
coal gas: as substitute for hydrogen, 3.1, 3.2
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 3.1; The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 11.1
Conquest of the Air, The (film), 1.1n
Constitution (balloon), 6.1, 6.2
Corps dAérostiers (balloon regiment), 2.1, 2.2
Coxwell, Henry Tracy: on aerial photographs in American Civil War, 6.1; pilots Glaisher, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5; high-altitude experiences, 8.6, 8.7, 8.8, 8.9, 9.1n; admired by French, 9.2; volunteers to organise Prussian balloon corps, 10.1; on number of letters carried by Paris siege balloons, 10.2n
Crane, Stephen, 6.1; The Red Badge of Courage, 6.2
Croce-Spinelli, Joseph, 8.1n, 10.1
Cruikshank, George: ‘Balloon Projects’ (cartoon)
Custer, Lieutenant (later General) George Armstrong
Cyrano de Bergerac, Savinien: Histoire comique des états et empires de la Lune, 1.1, 3.1
Dane’s Island, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3n
Daumier, Honoré, 7.1, 7.2, 10.1
Descartes, René: La Météorologie
Dickens, Charles: writes on balloons, 4.1; hostility to ballooning, 4.2, 7.1n; in USA, 5.1, 5.2; American Notes, 5.3; Bleak House, 4.3; ‘Nightmares’, 4.4; Pickwick Papers, 3.1, 4.5; ‘Vauxhall Gardens by Day’, 4.6
Doon, Linda: The Little Balloonists, 2.1n
Ducrot, General Auguste Alexandre
Duruof, Jules, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4
Eagle (or Örnen; earlier North Pole; balloon): attempts to reach North Pole, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3; lands on ice and wrecked, 11.4, epl.1
‘Earthrise’ (colour photograph)
East Germany: balloon escape from
Ekholm, Nils, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 11.7
England: decline of ballooning interest
Enterprise (balloon), 5.1, 6.1, 6.2
Experiment (balloon), 5.1
Fantastic Flights of Sophie Blanchard, The (cartoon film), 2.1n
Figaro, Le (French newspaper), 7.1, 10.1
Flammarion, Camille: night flight over Liège, 3.1; as ballooning enthusiast, 9.1; personal beliefs, 9.2; scientific ideas, 9.3, 9.4; ascents, 9.5, 9.6, 10.1; collaborates on Travels in the Air (Voyages aériens), 9.7, 10.2; on number of letters carried by Paris siege balloons, 10.3n; L’Astronomie populaire, 9.8; L’Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire, 9.9; Real and Imaginary Worlds, 9.10; ‘A Sketch of Scientific Ballooning’, 9.11
flight: dream of, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3; Hugo on, 7.1; powered, 11.1; see also ballooning
Flô, General Adolphe Charles Emmanuel le
Fonvielle, Wilfrid de: on feminine interest in balloonists, 2.1; on end of Géant, 7.1; interviews Green in retirement, 8.1, 8.2n; as amateur enthusiast, 9.1; republicanism, 9.2, 9.3; ascents, 9.4, 9.5; romantic view of ballooning, 9.6; teaching, 9.7; and Tissandiers, 9.8; contributes to Travels in the Air, 9.9; disparages Glaisher, 9.10; at launch of Neptune in Paris siege, 10.1; flies out of Paris in L’Egalité, 10.2; writing career, 10.3
Fraenkel, Knut: accompanies André on balloon North Pole attempt, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 11.7, 11.8; body found, 11.9
Fram (Norwegian ship), 11.1, 11.2
France: military balloons, 2.1; revived ballooning enthusiasm, 9.1, 9.2; Third Republic declared (1870), 10.1
France, La (airship), 7.1n, 10.1
Franco-Prussian War (1870–1), 9.1, 10.1, 10.2
Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Paper (US magazine)
Franklin, Benjamin: witnesses Alexander Charles’s ascent, 1.1, 1.2; on purpose of balloons, 1.3, 9.1; on military use of balloons, 2.1, 3.1, 8.1, 10.1; honoured in Philadelphia, 5.1; kite experiments, 5.2
Fulton (balloon), 4.1
Gager, Oliver A., 5.1, log, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 6.1
Gaines, Dr (Confederate supporter)
Gambetta, Léon: remains in Paris (1870), 10.1; lacks strategic policy, 10.2; sends address to nation from Paris to Tours, 10.3; balloon escape from Paris siege, 10.4, 10.5
Garnerin, André-Jacques, 1.1n, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1; Three Aerial Voyages, 2.5
Garnerin, Jeanne-Geneviève, 2.1, 11.1
Garnerin, Lisa, 2.1, 2.2, 11.1
Gautier, Théophile, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
Gay-Lussac, Joseph, 2.1, 3.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.1
Gazelle (balloon), 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Géant, Le (balloon), 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1
George Sand (balloon), 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4
Giffard, Henri, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1
Glaisher, James: qualities, 1.1; scientific high altitude flights, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3; contributes to and edits Travels in the Air, 8.4, 8.5, 9.4, 10.1; physically affected by altitude, 8.6, 8.7; pleasure flights with Coxwell, 8.8; elected President of Royal Meteorological Society, 8.9; views on ballooning, 8.10; admired in France, 9.5, 9.6, 9.7n; writes Preface to Flammarion’s L’Atmosphère, 9.8; and Tissandier brothers, 9.9; estimates number of letters carried in Paris siege balloons, 10.2n; inspires Andrée, 11.1
Godard family, 2.1, 5.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
Godard, Jules, 7.1, 1.19, 10.1
Godard, Louis, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 261, 10.1, 10.2
Godrich, Samuel Griswold see Parley, Peter
Gordon Bennett Annual Long Distance Balloon Race
Great Exhibition, London (1851)
Great Western (earlier City of New York; balloon)
Green, Charles: qualities, 1.1, 3.1; on Harris’s accident, 2.1; ascents, 3.2, 3.3; employs trail ropes, 3.4, 3.5; uses coal gas, 3.6; night flight over Liège to North Germany, 3.7, 3.8; proposes flying across Atlantic, 3.9; flights over London, 4.1; Dickens and, 4.2; Horne on, 4.3; retires, 4.4; influence on US balloonists, 5.1; lacks scientific interest, 8.1; high altitude flights, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4; Fonvielle visits in retirement, 8.5, 9.1, 9.2; advises Glaisher, 8.6; death, 8.7n; Glaisher follows flights, 8.8; admired in France, 9.3; ill health, 9.4; inspires Andrée, 11.1
guide ropes see trail ropes
Haggard, Sir Henry Rider: King Solomon’s Mines
Heintzelman, General Samuel Peter
helicopter: Nadar and Hugo propose
Hempleman-Adams, David, 11.1n, 11.2n; At the Mercy of the Winds, 7.1n, 11.3n
Henry, Joseph, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 8.1, 8.2
Hetzel, Pierre-Jules, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4
Hollins, John: A Consultation Prior to the Aerial Voyage to Weilburgh (painting)
Hollond, Robert, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Hood, Thomas: ‘Ode to Messrs Green, Hollond and Monck on their late Balloon Advenure’
Home, Richard Hengist, 4.1; ‘Ballooning’, 4.2
Hugo, Victor, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 11.1, epl.1; L’Année terrible, 10.5; Les Châtiments, 10.6, 10.7; Choses vues, 10.8; Letter on Flight, 7.3; ‘Lettre à une Femme’, 10.9
Hyde, William, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
hydrogen balloons: first flight
Illustrated London News, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 7.1
Impressionist Painters: First Exhibition, Paris (1874)
Indépendance Belge, L’ (newspaper)
International Space Station, n
Intrépide, L’ (mythical balloon)
Jackson, General Thomas Jonathan (‘Stonewall’), 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Jacquard, Le (balloon), 10.1, 10.2n
Jambo (balloon), 7.1n
Jean-Bart (balloon), 10.1, 10.2
Jeffries, Dr John: traverses Channel, 1.1, 1.2
Journal des débats, 10.1
Kerrison & Leiding (Charleston fabric merchants)
Kitty Hawk (balloon), 6.1n
Lacaze, Emile, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
LaMountain, John: qualities, 5.1, 6.1; flies with Wise in America, 5.2, 6.2; on Niagara, 5.3; lands by Lake Ontario, 5.4; shorter flights, 5.5; in American Civil War, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5; later career and death, 6.6
la Tour d’Auvergne, Princesse de
Lavoisier, Antoine, 1.1n, 2.1, 8.1
Lee, General Robert E., 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
leeches: as weather prognosticators
Leopold II, King of the Belgians
Liberté, La (newspaper), 9.1, 9.2
Lincoln, Abraham, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
London: Garnerin’s flights over, 2.1; Mayhew’s accounts of, 4.1; aerial panoramas and maps of, 4.2; Glaisher overflies, 8.1
Loudon, Jane: The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-First Century, 2.1, 6.1
Lowe, Léontine (née Gaschon), 5.1, 6.1
Lowe, Thaddeus Sobieski Coulincourt: qualities, 1.1, 5.1, 5.2; flies with Wise, 5.3; dreams of Transatlantic flight, 5.4; and City of New York (Great Western; balloon), 5.5; wins support from Henry, 5.6; in American Civil War, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5; observation binoculars, 6.6n; on ‘silk-dress balloon’, 6.7, 6.8n; later career, 6.9; My Balloons in Peace and War, 5.7, 6.10, 6.11
Lütgendorf, Maximilian, Baron von
McClellan, General George C, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6
McEwan, Ian: Enduring Love, 7.1n
McMahon, Marshal Marie Edmé Patrice Maurice de
Mammoth (French captive balloon)
Manet, Edouard: Jeune femme en costume Espagnole
Marie-Louise, Empress of Napoleon I
Markham, Admiral Sir Albert, 11.1, 11.2
Mason, Monck: flies with Green, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4; Aeronautica, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7
Maupassant, Guy de, 10.1n, 11.1, epl.1; Le Horla, 11.2
May, Mr (US businessman in Paris)
Mayhew, Henry, 3.1, 4.1, go, 8.1; ‘A Balloon Flight over London’, 4.2; The Criminal Prisons of London, 4.3; London Labour and the London Poor, 4.4
meteorology: study aided by ballooning, 1.1, 2.1, 8.1, 9.1; Wise studies, 5.1; Glaisher’s interest and experiments in, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4; development of instruments and measurements, 8.5, 9.2, 9.3; proverbial sayings and folklore, 8.6n; and weather forecasting, 8.7
microfilm: in Paris pigeon post (1870–1)
Military Aeronautics Corps (USA), 6.1, 6.2
Milton, John: Paradise Lost, 1.1n, 5.1
Moltke, General Helmuth, Count von, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
Money, Major (later General) John, 1.1, 2.1; A Short Treatise on the Use of Balloons in Military Operations, 1.2
Montgolfier brothers, 1.1, 1.2
Montgolfier, Joseph: formula for hot-air balloon, n
moon, the: fictional balloon ascents to, 1.1, 3.1
Munchausen, Karl Friedrich Hieronymus, Baron von, n
Murat, Joachim, King of Naples
Musée des familles (journal), 7.1
Nadal, Jean-Pierre, 10.1, 10.2
Nadar, Félix (i.e. Gaspard-Félix Tournachon): ballooning, 1.1, 4.1, 7.1, 7.2; photography, 7.3; promotes heavier-than air flight, 7.4; Hugo supports, 7.5; and Jules Verne, 7.6, 7.7; lacks scientific interest, 8.1; as publicist, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2; admired by amateur enthusiasts, 9.2; values, 9.3; Flammarion flies with, 9.4; influences Tissandier, 9.5; in Franco-Prussian War, 10.3; organises ballooning in siege of Paris (1870–1), 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, 10.8; letter to The Times, 10.9, 10.10; and miniaturised photographs in pigeon post, 10.11; supposed return balloon flight into Paris and air duel, 10.12; interviews Choiseul, 10.13n; organises First Exhibition of Impressionist Painters, 10.14; Le Droit au vol, 7.8, epl.1; ‘Manifesto of Aerial Autolocomotion’, 7.9; Mémoires du Géant, 7.10; When I Was a Photographer, 7.11
Nansen, Fridtjof, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5; Furthest North, 11.6
Napoleon I (Bonaparte), Emperor of the French, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 10.1
Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 7.1, 9.1, 10.1
Nassau (Green’s balloon) see Royal Nassau
National Aerospace Library, Farnborough, Hampshire, n
Nature, La: Revue des sciences
Neave, Airey: They Have Their Exits, 1.1n
Nelson, Admiral Horatio, Viscount
Neptune (balloon), 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4
Niepce, Le (balloon), 10.1, 10.2
Norge (airship), 11.1n
North Pole: Andrée’s balloon attempts on, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4n; exploration, 11.5, 11.6; Amundsen overflies, 11.7n; Hempleman-Adams’ first balloon flight over, 11.8n
North Pole (balloon) see Eagle
Norway: French balloon reaches in Franco-Prussian War, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1
Orford, George Walpole, 1.1rd Earl of, 1.2
Örnen (balloon) see Eagle
Oscar II, King of Sweden and Norway, 11.1, 11.2
Ovid: Metamorphoses, 1.1, 3.1n
Pantheon Nadar, Le, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
parachutes: early drops, 2.1, 3.1; in aerial acrobatics, 11.1
Paris: aerial photographs of, 7.1, 7.2; newspapers and magazines, 7.3; Expositions Universelles: (1867), 7.4; (1878), 8.1; balloon enthusiasts, 9.1; besieged in Franco-Prussian War, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3; Commune (1871), 10.4, 10.5, 10.6; balloon postal service established in siege, 10.7, 10.8, 10.9; balloons manufactured and named in war with Prussia, 10.10; pigeon post and microfilm, 10.11; bombarded and surrender (1871), 10.12; number of letters carried by siege balloons, 10.13 & n; cultural revival, 10.14
Parry, William Edward, 3.1, 11.1
Patent Tempest Prognosticator (Merryweather’s)
Pedro II, Don, Emperor of Brazil
Petit-Bicêtre (village), near Paris
Philadelphia Gas Works Company, 5.1, 5.2
Philadelphia Inquirer (newspaper), 5.1, 5.2, 6.1
Phiz (i.e. Hablot Knight Browne)
photography: Nadar’s aerial, 7.1; miniaturised during siege of Paris, 10.1
pigeon post: in siege of Paris
Pilâtre de Rozier, Jean-François, 1.1, 1.2n, 2.1, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1
Poe, Edgar Allan: Jules Verne writes on, 7.1; ‘The Atlantic Balloon’ (hoax news story), 3.1, 5.1, 7.2; ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’, 3.2; ‘The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall’, 3.3
Poole, John, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1
Porter, Lieutenant General Fitzjohn, 6.1, 6.2
Porter, Jane: Thaddeus of Warsaw
Prince, Alexandre, 10.1, 10.2n
Proud, Mr (of Wolverhampton gas company), 8.1, 8.2
Prussia: war with France (1870), 9.1, 10.1, 10.2; and names of French balloons in Franco-Prussian War, 10.3; bombards and occupies Paris (1871), 10.4; fails to employ balloons, 10.5
Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre, 10.1; The Pigeon (picture), 10.2
Queen of the Air (balloon), 7.1
railways: development, 3.1; in USA, 5.1, 5.2
Rampont-Lechin, Germaine, 10.1, 10.2
Raspe, Rudolf Erich: The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen, 2.1n
Red Balloon, The (film), 1.1n
Renaigle, Paul: The Perilous Situation of Major Money (mezzotint)
République Française, La (newspaper)
Reynolds, Mr (US businessman in Paris)
Richard Wallace, Le (balloon), 10.1, 10.2
Richmond, Virginia, 3.1n, 6.1, 6.2
Rinaldi, Ann: The Last Silk Dress (retitled Girl in Blue), 6.1n
Robert Merry Museum, The (magazine)
Robert, Monsieur (Dr Charles’s assistant)
Rolt, L.T.C., 10.1n; The Balloonists, 10.2n
Royal Meteorological Society, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4
Royal Nassau (earlier Royal Vauxhall; balloon), 3.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3 & n; Green’s London-Germany flight in, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5
Royal Society, London, 1.1, 8.1, 8.2
Royal Vauxhall (balloon) see Royal Nassau
Saint Fond, Barthélemy Faujas de
Scientific American (journal), 6.1, 7.1
Shelley, Mary, 3.1n; Frankenstein, 11.1
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 3.1n, 7.1, 7.2 & n
‘Silk Dress Balloon’ (US Confederate), 6.1, 6.2
Smith, Anthony: Throw Out Two Hands, 7.1n
Société Aérostatique et Météorologique de France, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
Société Astronomique de France
Society for the Promotion of Heavier than Air Locomotion, 7.1, 7.2
Spitsbergen, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5
Stocks, Miss (Thomas Harris’s companion)
Strindberg, Nils: accompanies Andrée on Polar attempt, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 11.7, 11.8; grave, 11.9
Swedish Aeronautical Society, n
Teaser (Confederate river boat)
Teisserene de Bort, Léon, 8.1n, 9.1n
Tennyson, Alfred, 1st Baron: ‘Locksley Hall’, 3.1
Times, The (newspaper), 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
Tissandier, Albert, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4
Tissandier, Gaston: qualities, 1.1, 9.1; on losing consciousness at high altitude, 8.1n; as ballooning enthusiast, 9.2, 9.3; archive, 9.4; flies with Flammarion, 9.5; accompanies Duruof on Calais flight, 9.6, 10.1; and Fonvielle, 9.7; illustrations, 9.8, 10.2; Glaisher on, 9.9; in siege of Paris, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6; flies siege balloon from Paris, 10.7; lands in Seine on attempt to reach Paris, 10.8, 10.9; honoured, 10.10, 10.11; later career and death, 10.12, 10.13; on Zénith high altitude expedition, 10.14; on steering balloons, 10.15; Les Ballons dirigibles, 10.16; Histoire de mes ascensions, 10.17; Histoire des ballons et des aéronautes célèbres, 10.18; Traité élémentaire de chimie, 9.10
Tours: in Franco-Prussian War, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5
trail ropes (guide ropes): Green develops, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 11.1
Trans-Atlantic Balloon Corporation, 5.1, 5.2
Travels in the Air (ed. James Glaisher), 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 10.1
Trochu, General Louis Jules, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
Turnor, Christopher Hatton, 8.1; Astra Castra, 8.2
Twain, Mark: Tom Sawyer Abroad
Union Balloon Corps (USA), 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5
United States of America: early ballooning, 5.1; mail carrying, 5.2; Wise’s 1859 flight, 5.3; traversing, 6.1n; see also American Civil War
Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, London: ballooning from, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1; closes (1859), 4.2
Verne, Jules, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 9.1, 11.1; Edgar Poe et ses oeuvres, 7.5; Five Weeks in a Balloon, 7.6, 7.7; The Mysterious Island, 6.1, 7.8; Voyages Extraordinaires, 7.9, 7.10
Victor Hugo (balloon), 10.1, 10.2
Volta, La (balloon), 10.1
weather see meteorology
Wells, H.G., 3.1, 11.1, 11.2n; The War in the Air, 11.3
Whitman, Walt: A Song of Myself
Wise, John: proposes Transatlantic flight, 3.1, 5.1; qualities and background, 5.2, 5.3; early ascents, 5.4; devises ‘rip-cord’, 5.5; on health benefits of ballooning, 5.6; plans pan-American aerial service, 5.7; on air currents, 5.8, 11.1; journey from St Louis to Great Lakes (1859), 5.9, 6.1; crosses Niagara, 5.10; forced landing at Lake Ontario, 5.11; in American Civil War, 6.2; and Langdon Cheeves, 6.3; vanishes on balloon flight, 6.4; lacks scientific interest, 8.1; identifies ground from sounds, 9.1; Andrée meets, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4; on ballooning to North Pole, 11.5; A System of Aeronautics, 5.12, 5.13; Through the Air: A Narrative of Forty Years’ Experience as an Aeronaut, 2.1, 5.14, 6.5
women: as balloonists and aerial acrobats, 8.1, 11.1
Zénith: high altitude flight (Paris 1875), 8.1n, 10.1
Zeppelin, Captain Ferdinand von: as observer in American Civil War, 6.1; influenced by Tissandier, 10.1; on powered flight, 11.1