aerostation

Example Sentences

• "The balloon ascension advertised by Mr. Wise, the celebrated aeronaut of forty aerostations, took place in this borough on Saturday last."
• "As he notes, the spread of aerostations testifies to the effectiveness of Enlightenment networks at disseminating information: Most of the early aeronauts had never seen an ascension with their own eyes, but they built their balloons based on the descriptions given by their written sources (19)."
• "After a moment she gave an excited gasp. "Look! Oh, do look! It's a balloon!" Mr. Richmond sat forward sharply. "One of those infernal aerostations?” he growled."
• "It is expected that an analysis of the fist year's records will lead to a clear decision as to whether or not to engage in the second phase of the research, which will comprise a re-arrangement of the survey stations on a finer geographical pattern and the collection of design data for aerostations."
• "Seaborne aerostations could be anchored in the strong windbelts which exist in many areas of the world, for example, off the north-east part of the U.S.A."
• "... everywhere—in the streets, on the sidewalks, in the abandoned pathways of the slums and the huge boulevards of the megacities, inside makeshift shelters, Recyclo particleboard houses, prefabricated houses, Combi-cubes, luxury hotels-turned-superprotected bunkers, malls-turned-colonies, office buildings taken over by hordes of migrants, aerostations, factories, ports, docks, dikes, breakwaters, cartels of floating houses, offshore cities, clusters of drilling platforms, cargo ships and ocean liners-turned-nautical cities— the scene is identical, ..."