Concept
Balloons - Early works to 1800
Catalogue
- Books
- Online
Breslaw's last legacy: or, the conjuror unmasked. Containing All That IS Curious, Pleasing, Entertaining, And Comical, Selected from the most celebrated Masters of Slight Of Hand And Deception, Mathematical Inventions, &c. Wherein IS Displayed The Mode and Manner of deceiving the Eye, As practised by those celebrated Masters of Mirthful Deceptions, Breslaw, Sieur Comus, Jonas, Pinetti, &c. Also, Interpretations Of Dreams, Signification Of Moles, Palmistry, Remarkable Stories, &c. The Whole Forming A Book Of Real Knowledge In The Art Of Conjuration. With an accurate Description of making The Air Balloon. The tenth edition, with great additions and improvements.
Date: 1792- Books
- Online
An essay on aerostation: Wherein is exhibited the easiest method of constructing and directing aerostats, a plan for reconnoitering balloons, and a new hint for aerostatical telegraphs. with plates. By Francis Oliveri, professor of modern languages and mathematics.
Olivari, Francis.Date: 1797- Books
- Online
Le dauphin Enlevé, ou l'art de se diriger dans les airs. Par le Vte de ***.
Vaux, Charles Grant, vicomte de.Date: M.DCC.XCIII. [1793]- Books
- Online
The air balloon: Or a Treatise on The aerostatic globe, Lately invented by The celebrated Mons. Montgolfier of Paris. Shewing, First-Those Properties of Air, which influence an Air Balloon. 2dly-The particular Construction and Methods of filling it. 3dly-Some of the great Variety of probable Uses which this important Discovery may be applied to for the Benefit of Mankind. The Whole rendered familiar to the plainest Capacity.
Date: MDCCLXXXIII. [1783]- Books
- Online
Lettre à Monsieur le président de ***. Sur le globe airostatique, sur les têtes parlantes, & sur l'état présent de l'opinion publique à Paris. Pour servir de suite à la lettre sur le pöeme des jardins.
Rivarol, Antoine, 1753-1801.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIII. [1783]