The Papers of Ballooning: Recent Episodes

Dan Bowen

Historic High altitude/weather balloon science articles, read by text-to-speech software. Curated by your favorite balloon expert, Dan Bowen!

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A Text-to-speech reading of "Benjamin Franklin and the First Balloons" from 1907. While in France in the 1780s, Ben Franklin was a spectator for many of the very first balloon flights in history. He was fascinated by the technical details of these experiments, and his letters on the subject are reproduced here.

Please forgive some mangling of the pronunciations :-)

Download this Paper as PDF: https://drive.google.com/open?id=11iX-9HVWwwgCNeFfF6k-5fp9bAnlLi_J

I'm Dan Bowen, your favorite high altitude balloon expert. Let’s explore the scientific and engineering history of balloons! If you enjoyed this, please “Like” this post, please subscribe to the channel, and please:

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This is one of my favorites, an engaging technical narrative, told by a team of NYU scientists figuring out how to make balloons travel over long distances, at the beginning of the modern balloon era.

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A Text-to-speech reading of "The Vega Balloon Experiments" 1986, Soviet Astronomy Letters No. 12. An overview of the amazing Soviet space mission that flew balloons in the clouds of Venus.

Download this Paper as PDF: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1HM25v6tEiDY0DoVYArLDK327Rg1TGFio

I'm Dan Bowen, your favorite high altitude balloon expert.  Let’s explore the scientific and engineering history of balloons!  If you enjoyed this, please “Like” this post, please subscribe to the channel, and please:

Please help keep this kind of work going with a donation:  Patreon.com/BalloonScience  Thank you!

My Balloon Science videos:

https://bit.ly/balloonsciencevideos

Facebook.com/pg/balloonsciencedan

My “Papers of Ballooning” Podcast: Anchor.fm/BalloonPapers

Live chat with me about balloons (Discord): bit.ly/balloonchat

For balloon project advice:  http://StratosphericBalloon.consulting


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A Text to Speech reading, Part TWO of: "Research Ballooning" from 1959, covering chapter 3.  This is a lovely, overview of the technical history and state of balloon capabilities at that time.  Much of the information remains relevant today.  

Download this Paper as PDF: https://drive.google.com/open?id=11iX-9HVWwwgCNeFfF6k-5fp9bAnlLi_J

I'm Dan Bowen, your favorite high altitude balloon expert.  Let’s explore the scientific and engineering history of balloons!  If you enjoyed this, please “Like” this post, please subscribe to the channel, and please:

Please help keep this kind of work going with a donation:  Patreon.com/BalloonScience  Thank you!

My Balloon Science videos:

https://bit.ly/balloonsciencevideos

Facebook.com/pg/balloonsciencedan

My “Papers of Ballooning” Podcast: Anchor.fm/BalloonPapers

Live chat with me about balloons (Discord): bit.ly/balloonchat

For balloon project advice:  http://StratosphericBalloon.consulting


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Text-to-speech reading of "Research Ballooning" 1959, New York University. Part 1, which goes up to page 24.  A lovely, concise, overview of the technical history and state of balloon capabilities, intended for the audience of university scientists and students looking to fly experiments.

Help me make more of these fun science explorations by donating at Patreon: 

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Http://stratosphericballoon.consulting 

Thanks,

Dan Bowen


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