Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1900 — A New Use for Balloons. [ARTICLE]

A New Use for Balloons.

M. I*etorey, a French architect, haa applied the captive balloon to the cleaning or decorating of cupolas, high roofs, towers a-id monuments. The balloon can be raised or lowered from a wagon by a windlass, and It can be steadied by stays from the side of the envelope. It has, two platforms, or “nacelles,’’ one on the top, the other underneath, and these communicate by a ladder up a central tube. The “balloon scaffold,” aa It la called, might be useful and safe in many operations; such as now require steeple Jacks; for example, the wreathing of Nelson’s column, and also In wireless telegraphy as an aerial station.—London Glob*.