 | British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting - Science - 1863 - 874 pages
...speedily descended: other thoughts were actively entering my mind, when I suddenly became unconscious as on going to sleep. I cannot tell anything of the sense...reaches the ear. My last observation was made at lh 54m at 29,000 feet. I suppose two or three minutes fully were occupied between my eyes becoming insensible... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1863 - 864 pages
...speedily descended: other thoughts were actively entering my mind, when I suddenly became unconscious as on going to sleep. I cannot tell anything of the sense...reaches the ear. My last observation was made at lh 54m at 29,000 feet. I suppose two or three minutes fully were occupied between my eyes becoming insensible... | |
 | 1863 - 484 pages
...perfect silence of the regions six miles from the earth (and at this time we were between six and seven miles high) is such that no sound reaches the ear. My last observation was made at 29,000 feet, about lh 54™. I suppose two or three minutes, fully, were occupied between my eyes becoming... | |
 | Fulgence Marion - Balloon ascensions - 1870 - 244 pages
...stillness of the regions six miles from the earth — and at that time we were between six and seven miles high — is such that no sound reaches the ear. My last observation was made at 29,000 feet, about fifty-four minutes past one. I suppose two or three minutes elapsed between my eyes... | |
 | Fulgence Marion - 1870 - 286 pages
...stillness of the regions six miles from the earth — and at that time we were between six and seven miles high — is such that no sound reaches the ear. My last observation was made at 29,000 feet, about fifty-four minutes past one. I suppose two or three minutes elapsed between my eyes... | |
 | Fulgence Marion - Balloon ascensions - 1870 - 244 pages
...stillness of the regions six miles from the earth — and at that time we were between six and seven miles high — is such that no sound reaches the ear. My last observation was made at 29,000 feet, about fifty-four minutes past one. I suppose two or three minutes elapsed between my eyes... | |
 | James Glaisher - Aeronautics - 1871 - 486 pages
...we speedily descended : other thoughts were entering my mind, when I suddenly became unconscious as on going to sleep. I cannot tell anything of the sense of hearing, as no sound reaches the air to break the perfect stillness and silence of the regions between six and... | |
 | JAMES GLAISHER - 1871 - 450 pages
...we speedily descended : other thoughts were entering my mind, when I suddenly became unconscious as on going to sleep. I cannot tell anything of the sense of hearing, as no sound reaches the ear to break the perfect stillness and silence of the regions between six and... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - Aeronautics - 1875 - 610 pages
...we speedily descended; other thoughts were entering my mind, when I suddenly became unconscious, as on going to sleep. I cannot tell anything of the sense of hearing, as no sound reaches the ear to break the perfect stillness and silence of the region between six and... | |
 | John Small - Curiosities and wonders - 1876 - 646 pages
...actively entering my mind, when I suddenly became unconscious as on going to sleep. I cannot te)' 2 L anything of the sense of hearing; the perfect stillness and silence of the regions six miles from the earth (and at this time we were between six and seven miles high) is such that no... | |
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I should experience no more, as death would come, unless we speedily descended: other thoughts were actively entering my mind, when I suddenly became unconscious as on going to sleep. I cannot tell anything of the sense of hearing ; the perfect stillness... 
