# The Balloon Factory

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- Book: [The Balloon Factory](https://www.bookquiver.com/alexander-frater/the-balloon-factory) ([The Balloon Factory.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/alexander-frater/the-balloon-factory.md))
- Authors: [Alexander Frater](https://www.bookquiver.com/alexander-frater)
- Publisher: picador
- ISBN: 978-03-3043-311-2
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2009-05-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Alexander Frater’s new book is about a small, largely forgotten group of young men who, early in the 20th Century, competed to build and fly England’s first aeroplane.