(1) The most accomplished aeronauts of all are the flies.

(2) The balloons, directed by aeronaut Thaddeus Lowe, were used to spot enemy soldiers and coordinate Federal troop movements.

(3) A French aeronaut, M. Meunier , tried to attain his end by compressing air in an interior receptacle.

(4) Blanchard:French aeronaut who was the first to cross the English Channel by balloon (1785). He invented and demonstrated a parachute the same year.

(5) French aeronaut Bertrand Piccard hopes to showcase the potential of green technology -- the plane does not use a drop of oil.

(6) Aeronaut John Steiner inflates his hot air balloon at Erie, Pennsylvania, as seen in the oldest known photograph of an aircraft, a quarter-plate ambrotype taken in June 1857.

(7) With his Yorkshireman's eye for economy he was soon suggesting that the more impecunious aeronauts might seriously consider the process.

(8) The machine immediately broke through the massive substructure upon which it was built, and sank out of sight into the earth, the aeronaut springing out barely in time to save himself.