Sentence examples for balloon corps from inspiring English sources

Napoleon called upon him to serve as chief of the balloon corps in the Egyptian expedition (1798).

A wild chase across country, starting from Orléans and ending in the railway station at Étampes, in which cycle-policemen, gendarmes, automobiles and soldiers belonging to the army balloon corps took part, ended yesterday [Jan.

February 3, 1831 Wrentham, Massachusetts May 29, 1910 New York City, New York Cyrus B. Comstock, in full Cyrus Ballou Comstock (born February 3 , 1831 Wrentham, Massachusetts died May 29 , 1910 New York City, New York), Union army officer and engineer who commanded the Balloon Corps during the American Civil War and later founded the Comstock Prize in Physics.

Maybe Wellman's still sore because they wouldn't let him do his balloon corps picture, and so the resultant venom went into this effort.

In an 1889 experiment of the Imperial Russian Technical Society at Saint Petersburg, the chief of the Russian balloon corps took aerial photographs from a balloon and sent the developed collodion film negatives to the ground by pigeon post.

"We worked very hard to rebuild our brand, and now the government trusts us". Today, in the four years since China changed the rules on direct sales following accession to the World Trade Organization, Amway has flourished, pouring money into ad campaigns and training a ballooning sales corps.

The press corps couldn't have been more distracted unless Balloon Boy had taken to the skies — and landed on the South Lawn of the White House for a play date with the Obama girls.

The Second Army Report Centre at Locre Château was linked by buried cable to each corps report centre, corps heavy artillery headquarters, divisional artillery headquarters, RFC squadrons, balloon headquarters, survey stations and wireless stations.

A conference was held each evening by the counter-battery staffs of divisions and corps, methodically to collate the day's reports from observation aircraft and balloons, field survey companies, sound ranging sections and forward observation officers.

A corps of excellent tap dancers flow on and off the stage in euphoric numbers that efficiently use balloons and a small movable staircase.

The diplomatic corps arrived.