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Engineering: an assortment of inventions. Engraving by W. Lowry.
Reference: 45488i
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William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville, dispensing Roman Catholic tracts from a balloon to the people of Oxford; representing his installation as Chancellor of Oxford University. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1810.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: August 8th 1810Reference: 36363i
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Alter attitudes to AIDS / Liverpool Health Promotion Agency.
Date: [1992?]
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The Great Industrial Exhibition, Dublin, 1853: a hot-air balloon flies above. Lithograph.
Date: 1853Reference: 36445i
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People using advanced materials and modes of transport in the year 2000, some travelling in hot-air balloons, some with their own wings, and some in carriages running on steam. Lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852.Date: 1834Reference: 37253i
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Crowds gather at the parade ground of the Honourable Artillery Company in London to watch two hot-air balloons. Gouache.
Date: 1884Reference: 37485i
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Westminster and surrounding areas of London seen from a balloon. Coloured lithograph by Jules Arnout after himself.
Arnout, Jules, 1814-1868.Date: 1840-1849Reference: 36436i
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Pneumatics: an air-rifle and a kind of spirit lamp [?]. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1802.
Date: 2 September 1802Reference: 47572i
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Des avantages que la physique, et les arts qui en dépendent, peuvent retirer des globes aërostatiques / Par m. l'abbé Bertholon.
Bertholon, Pierre, 1741-1800.Date: M.DCCLXXXIV
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Two balloons in the air over boats in the water to which lines are attached from an anchoring system on the sea bed. Coloured wood engraving.
Reference: 36655i
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A red balloon with a red label attached floats above a group of further balloons with the message in French: "Sponsor a balloon. Send a message"; an advertisement for a fundraising balloon event at Paris Champs de Mars on Saturday 28 October1995 to help combat AIDS by VLS (Vaincre le SIDA). Colour lithograph.
Date: 1995Reference: 672651i
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Captain Temple and Walter Powell M.P. in the basket of the balloon 'Saladin', 1881. Coloured wood engraving.
Date: 1880-1889Reference: 36308i
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French savants huddled together at the top of a column, while a band of Bedouin Arabs set fire to it below; exaggerating the troubled experience of the 'Commission des Sciences et des Arts' during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 6 March 1799Reference: 18129i
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Men filling a balloon with hydrogen. Coloured etching.
Reference: 36349i
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A hydrogen balloon has landed at Nesles-la-Vallée in 1783: mounted men ride to greet the balloonists, others gather to watch. Coloured etching by T. Sergent.
Sergent-Marceau, Antoine François, 1751-1847Date: 1780-1789Reference: 36324i
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A line of hot-air balloons loaded with boxes advertise "A. Stevens" as they travel over a line of sailing ships. Wood engraving.
Reference: 36415i
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A balloon piloted by Charles Green crash-lands on Pirbright Common, Surrey, in 1852. Coloured wood engraving.
Reference: 36315i
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Le Havre seen from a balloon. Coloured lithograph by Jules Arnout after himself.
Arnout, Jules, 1814-1868.Date: XReference: 36442i
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Men and dogs in an arctic landscape with three hot-air balloons: proposed method of reaching the North Pole by J.P. Cheyne. Coloured wood engraving by C. Roberts.
Date: [1879]Reference: 36403i
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Crowds of people gathered in a square, with hot-air balloons on the ground. Coloured wood engraving after Corbould, 1884.
Corbould.Reference: 36382i
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Four men in the basket of a balloon with some equipment. Wood engraving by Smyth after a photograph by Mayall.
Reference: 36390i
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Commedia dell'arte characters are raising a balloon by having it pulled by horses. Coloured etching, ca. 1785.
Reference: 36353i
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St. James's Park: people boating on the lake which has marquees with flags flying on its banks, a hot-air balloon flies overhead. Engraving, 1814.
Date: Septr. 9 1814Reference: 36446i
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Crowds of people gathered at an entertainment at Basford, Staffordshire, including music and a balloon. Coloured wood engraving, 1859.
Date: 1859Reference: 36380i
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A balloon flies over a park with marquees and bunting where crowds of people are gathered. Coloured lithograph.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 36443i