The information gathered was valuable enough that Lowe was ordered to construct larger balloons by an officer of the U.S. Army's Topographic Engineering Corps.

However, he does not despair and, after a partial recovery, ventures into constructing and flying balloons.

Despite her young age, she is a master balloon artist, being able to construct balloons of all shapes and sizes.

From the summer of 1944 until February 1945, high school girls worked in or near Kokura constructing balloons to carry bombs across the Pacific where they would detonate in the U.S.

In 1900, the two brothers visited the 1900 Paris Exposition ('World's Fair'), where they saw the balloons of Édouard Surcouf (of Société Astra), who had developed a method of constructing truly spherical balloons.

Beanpole talked of constructing much vaster balloons, which would have firm containing skins and engines to push them though the air, but that was a remote hope for the future.

The same individual submitted to me, without being at all aware of my intentions, a method of constructing balloons from the membrane of a certain animal, through which substance any escape of gas was nearly an impossibility.