Smithsonian Report, 1901. — Lyle. 



Plate I. 



The Air Ship " Santos- Dumont V" circling the Eiffel Tower. 



" Bringing together man's two ways of getting into the air. the one from a century just closed 

 the other from a century just beginning." [The balloon was reallvno higher than the second 

 platform; but the camera, pointed upward, made it appear to be near the top.] 



