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 naut should do the journey between Paris and New York in two days.

The difficulty of carrying sufficient ts the biggest problem in connection with such a project. But that will be, just as engineers have solved the of carrying enough coal to stoke  liners. What would Fulton have said if he had been told that steamers would be built of 44,000-horsepower? The VI has an 18-horsepower motor. Who can say how many horse-power the navigable balloon of the future will possess?

The first step in aerial navigation has been successfully accomplished. The era of long voyages in steerable balloons is now, and the crossing of the Atlantic is only one of the vast designs which will be realized sooner than most people imagine. I am persuaded it is possible and I hope to try it.