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Henry de la Vaulx Sets Ballooning Record

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 15, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 3.

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Henry de la Vaulx Sets Ballooning Record

Count Henry de la Vaulx, who recently ascended in a balloon from Vincennes, France, for the purpose of traversing Europe as far as possible, has returned to Paris, a holder of the world's record for long-distance ballooning. The feat accomplished by the aeronaut was a trip of two thousand kilometers, from France to Kiew, Russia, one thousand three hundred kilometers (812½ miles) of which was made in exactly twenty-four hours.—Scientific American.