A Firm of civil engineers in London, Phillip Brammon and Co., profess to have solved the whole problem of aerial navigation, and state that they would utilise their invention to carry provisions into Paris. Their new "air-packet," as they term it, can be raised to any height in the air, or lowered, at pleasure. It can go either with or against the wind, as the steersman chooses, at a speed varying from four to sixteen knots an hour. Each air-packet would carry from one to two tons, besides passengers, crew T , and equipment. Let the siege of Paris last ever so long, a, fleet could be secured numerous enough to carry in all that was needed in way of food. It is added that the Prussians could not destroy these vessels, but would suffer terrible injury in the attempt. — Western Daily Press.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 78, 3 April 1871, Page 2
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