aerostationn.
/ˌɛːrə(ʊ)ˈsteɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌɛroʊˈsteɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˌɛrəˈsteɪʃ(ə)n/ 1. The art of raising and guiding balloons (and formerly †other craft) in the air. Now historical.
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society > travel > air or space travel > [noun] > science or art of air travel
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aeronautics1824
1784 in tr. M. Blanchard Narr. M. Blanchard's Third Aerial Voy. Pref. p. iii The important discovery of Aerostation..and the great and well founded probability that..mankind may be ultimately benfited, are sufficient inducements to the Translator for presuming to engage in the task.
1798 Monthly Rev. 26 512 The Montgolfiers, after their splendid discoveries in aerostation.
1831 T. Walker (title) A treatise upon ærostation; or, the art of travelling through the air, by mechanical means alone.
1870 Ann. Rep. Aeronaut. Soc 11 Men do not consider the subject of ‘aërostation’ or ‘aviation’ to be a real science.
1912 Science 12 Jan. 44/1 It is planned to study all theoretical and practical problems of aviation and aerostation relative to the support of bodies in the air.
1954 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 98 131/1 The excitement engendered by news from abroad of developments in the field of aerostation, as ballooning was at that time called.
1996 Osiris 11 146 In the early years of aerostation..the Royal Society had, in fact, refused to support systematic exploration in balloons in England.
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the world > matter > physics > mechanics > dynamics > statics > [noun] > aerostatics
aerostatica1753
aerostatics1784
aerostation1788
1788 G. S. Howard New Royal Encycl. I. 56 Aerostation, in it's primary and proper sense, denotes the science of weights suspended in the air.
1789 A. Young Jrnl. 22 Aug. in Trav. France (1792) i. 171 Important works on volcanoes, aerostation, and various other branches of natural history.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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