CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This collection consists of two diaries kept by Lieutenant Zenos Ramsey Miller (1895--1922) as a pilot in the 27th Aero Squadron of the US Army ...

The invention of the balloon struck the men and women of the late 18th century like a thunderbolt. Enormous crowds gathered in Paris to watch one balloon after another rise above the city rooftops, ...