Henry B. Dight?
If you have any old books on ballooning could you look up Henry B. Dight
for
me please.
He turns up in the 1881 census of England where he gives his occupation as
Aeronaut. He was born in London around 1819/1820 and in 1881 he was living
at 10 Parsons Hill, Woolwich, Kent.
Google has failed to find any mention of him for me. However I did find a
brief reference to a "Roberts & Dight" who in 1790 applied for a UK patent
for "rubber solution for treating canvas before oil painting". Rubber
coated
canvas sounds like something you might need when making a hydrogen
balloon?
Perhaps this Dight was father of the one I'm looking for or perhaps there
is
no connection.
Any information on Henry welcome.
