London, Mar. 1 The death has occurred here, at Hie age of 80, of Mr. Eric Henry Stuart Bruce, one of the pioneers of British aeronautic science. Deceased was 8 member of the Council and hon. secretary of the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain Cwhich he Jorganized), vice-president of the Aeriat League of the British Empire and an honorary member of the Aero Club of France. He invented the electrical translucent signalling balloon, the aerial graphoscope and the metec. parachute, and" was_ editor of the Egeronaistieal Journal" from 1899
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