Henry Tracey Coxwell

Henry Tracey Coxwell ( born March 2, 1819 in Wouldham at Rochester Castle, † 16 January, 1900 in Tottenham ) was an English aeronaut.

Coxwell was initially trained at the military school at Chatham, then joined the army, but later turned to the profession of a dentist to.

Since 1844 Coxwell was mainly occupied with the airship. He founded in 1845 the Aeronautical Magazine, edited by him and made subsequently about 700 air trips, one of which with the meteorologist James Glaisher 1862 is the most remarkable. The two climbed without supplemental oxygen up to an altitude of about 11.270 m ( 37,000 ft). Glaisher lost consciousness, and Coxwell could open only with effort and with the teeth of the control valve and bring the balloon to sink.

During the Franco-German War 1870/71 Coxwell was employed in the Prussian Luftschifferabteilung.

James Tracey Coxwell died on January 16, 1900 in Tottenham.

Publications

• Life and Balloon experiences. 2 vols London ( 1887-89 )

Evidence

• Balloonist
• Military person (United Kingdom)
• Briton
• English
• Born in 1819
• Died 1900
• Man