About the book: 1880 / Illustrated essays by the French aeronaut and writer Gaston Tissandier (Gaston Tissandier, 1843–1899) about the heroes of capitalist labor and the martyrs of scientific progress. Translation edited by F. F. Pavlenkov, publisher of the famous Pavlenkov Encyclopedic Dictionary and the pre-revolutionary book series “The Life of Remarkable People”».