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September 5, 1862.—Tames Glaisher, who was the first superintendent of the magiietical and meteoro logical department of the Royal Observatory on its foundation in 1840, and was also the founder of the Royal Monorological Society made many balloon ascents for scientific purposes, the most notable of which was that made from Wolverhampton on Sept. 5, 1862, when a height of nearly seven miles was attained.
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S., E. Calender of Discovery and Invention. Nature 120, 350 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120350a0
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