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ANDREE, SALOMON AUGUST (1854-1897 ?)

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ANDREE, SALOMON See also:AUGUST (1854-1897 ?) , See also:Swedish engineer, was See also:born at Grenna, on See also:Lake See also:Vetter, on the 18th of See also:October 1854. After See also:education at the See also:Stockholm technical See also:college, he studied See also:aeronautics, and in 1895 elaborated a See also:plan for See also:crossing the See also:north polar region by a See also:balloon which should be in some degree dirigible by sails and trailing See also:ropes. After an abortive effort in 1896, the winds being contrary, he started with two companions from Danes See also:Island, See also:Spitsbergen, on the I1th of See also:July 1897. The party was never seen, again, nor is the manner of its See also:fate known. Of several expeditions sent in See also:search of it, the first started in See also:November 1897, on the strength of a See also:report of cries of See also:distress heard by shipwrecked sailors at Spitsbergen; in 1888 and 1899 parties searched the north See also:Asiatic See also:coast and the New See also:Siberia Islands; and in May 1899 Dr Nathorst headed an expedition to eastern See also:Greenland. None was successful, and only scanty See also:information was obtained or inferred from the See also:discovery of a few buoys (on the See also:west of Spitsbergen, See also:northern See also:Norway, See also:Iceland, &c.) which the balloonists had arranged to drop, and a See also:message taken from a See also:carrier See also:pigeon despatched from the balloon two days after its ascent. There were also messages in two of the buoys, but they dated only from the See also:day of the ascent. The others were empty.

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