A Chicago man built a watermelon-shaped craft to cross Lake Michigan about 120 years ago. Here’s what happened.
as its inventor had promised and drifted back to shore. Nissen blamed the conditions — not his ingenuity — for the scrubbed effort.
Undeterred, Nissen brought his bag of air to Chicago Avenue on Nov. 29, 1904. He spent an hour inflating it before loading up three days of rations of “biscuit, cheese, tobacco and water,” the Tribune reported. When its tethers were cut around 3 p.m., the craft was swept out into the lake. TheSnow flurries pelted the canvas, the temperature dropped several degrees below freezing and the balloon bounced fiercely like a rubber ball on the waves.
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