John Jeffries (1796-1876) was an ophthalmic surgeon and co-founded the Massachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary. John Jeffries John Jeffries (5 February 1745 – 16 September 1819) was a Boston physician, scientist, and a military surgeon with the British Army in Nova Scotia and New York during the American Revolution. He is best known for accompanying Jean-Pierre Blanchard on his 1785 balloon flight across the English Channel. Born in Boston, Jeffries graduated from Harvard College and obtained his medical degree at the University of Aberdeen. Dr. Jeffries played a large role in the trial for the Boston Massacre as a witness for
Atlantic Balloon Crossing It provides a challenging multi-player or solitaire game which is difficult to optimize." Atlantic Balloon Crossing Atlantic Balloon Crossing is a video game written by Dean Powell for the TRS-80 and published by The Software Exchange in 1979. It was originally printed as a type-in BASIC listing in the June 1979 issue of "SoftSide" magazine. "Atlantic Balloon Crossing" is a game that places the player in control of a gas balloon in an effort to cross the Atlantic Ocean from Canada to Paris in the shortest possible time. Joseph Suchar reviewed "Atlantic Balloon Crossing" in "The Space Gamer" No. 37.