Excerpt from The American Legion Weekly, Vol. 7: January 16, 1925 There were other craft as strange the Sphere, for instance, a gigantic balloon with. A basket big enough to carry eight persons. Four of the crew were to pump air and compress it into great casks. The party was to take a flight around the world without stopping, just like that. When the big bag required atmospheric suste nance, it was to be fed from the com pressed air stored away. The thing could not have flown had the balloon been as big as a mountain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.