- Author
- Krantz, William E.
- Date of Publication
- 1986
make ascensions in Philadelphia, Lebanon, Reading, and
Lancaster.
The John Wise Era
John Wise, America"s most famous aeronaut, was born in Lancaster in
1808, and was a resident of Lancaster for many of his seventy-one years. As
a boy, he experimented with kites and tissue paper parachutes, and Mont