id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
861	Bacon, John M. (John Mackenzie)	The Dominion of the Air: The Story of Aerial Navigation			.txt	text/plain	90475	3003	59	It is time then, taking events in their due sequence, that mention should be made of the endeavours of various savants, who began about the commencement of the nineteenth century to gather fresh knowledge from the exploration of the air by balloon ascents organised with fitting equipment. When, then, to this great outlay was added the difficulty and delay of producing a sufficient supply by what was at best a clumsy process, as also the positive failure and consequent disappointment which not infrequently ensued, it is easy to understand how through many years balloon ascents, no longer a novelty, had begun to be regarded with distrust, and the profession of a balloonist was doomed to become unremunerative.	cache/861.txt	txt/861.txt
