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Hints of important uses, to be derived from aerostatic globes. With a print of an aerostatic globe, and its appendages. Originally designed in 1783. By Thomas Martyn.
Martyn, Thomas, 1735-1825.Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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Lettres de l'Observateur Bon-sens, a M. de ***, sur la fatale catastrophe des infortunés Pilatre de Rosier & Romain, les aéronautes & l'aérostation.
Marat, Jean Paul, 1743-1793.Date: M.DCC.LXXXV. [1785]- Books
Angina / British Heart Foundation.
Date: 2009- Books
Japanese paper balloon bombs : the first ICBM.
Morris, Henry, 1925-2019.Date: 1982- Ephemera
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Air balloon : at Mr. Patterson's Great Room, no. 6, King-Street, Covent-Garden on Monday, the 1st of December, and every evening during the week, will be delivered a lecture on air / by J. Dinwiddie.
Date: [1783]- Digital Images
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Rat carotid artery
Dr Andrew Loesch- Books
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An account of the first aërial voyage in England : in a series of letters to his guardian, Chevalier Gherardo Compagni, written under the impressions of the various events that affected the undertaking / by Vincent Lunardi.
Lunardi, Vincent, 1759-1806.Date: 1784- Books
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Breslaw's last legacy; or the magical companion: containing all that is curious, pleasing, entertaining and comical; selected from the most celebrated masters of deception: as well with slight of hand, as with mathematical inventions. Wherein is displayed the mode and manner of deceiving the eye; as practised by those celebrated Masters of Mirthful Deceptions. Including the various exhibitions of those wonderful artists, Breslaw, Sieur, Comus, Jonas, &c. Also The Interpretation Of Dreams, Signification Of Moles, Palmestry, &c. The whole forming A Book of real Knowledge in the Art of Conjuration. With an accurate Description of the Method how to make The Air Balloon, And Inject The Inflammable Air.
Date: M,DCC,XCV. [1795]- Books
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Lunardi's grand aerostatic voyage through the air, containing A complete and circumstantial Account of the Grand Aerial Flight made by that enterprising Foreigner, in his Air Balloon, on September 15, 1784, from the Time of his being launched in it, in the Artillery-Ground, to his descending with it, on the same Day, near Ware, in Hertsordshire; together with a Variety of Particulars, during his Abode in that truly wonderful and magnificent Machine, that have never yet transpired.
Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]- Pictures
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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- Books
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Journal et procès verbaux du quatrième voyage aërien de M. Blanchard, parti de Chelsea, le 16 octobre, 1784, a Midi neuf Minutes, Accompagne, jusqu'a Sunbury, par le Sieur J. Sheldon, Professeur D'Anatomie, et membre de la societe royale de londres: Et, seul, de Sunbury, a Rumsey, dans la Province D'Hampshire. Dedie, avec Permission, A Sa Grace My Lord Duc de Northumberland.
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre, 1753-1809.Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]- Pictures
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Vista from Benjamin Franklin's residence in Passy (Haute Savoie), showing a hot air ballon in full flight. Engraving with etching.
Reference: 555498i- Books
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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
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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]- Books
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Hints of important uses, to be derived from aerostatic globes. With a print of an aerostatic globe, and its appendages. Originally designed in 1783. By Thomas Martyn.
Martyn, Thomas, 1735-1825.Date: M DCC LXXXIV. [1784]- Pictures
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International Airship Exhibition, Frankfurt, 1909: a Zeppelin airship, an aeroplane and two balloons airborne over the exhibition site. Process print.
Date: 1900-1999Reference: 36301i- Books
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An account of five aerial voyages in Scotland, in a series of letters to his guardian, Chevalier Gerardo Compagni, Written Under The Impression Of The Various Events That Affected The Undertaking, by Vincent Lunardi, Esq. Secretary to the late Neapolitan Ambassador, First Aerial Traveller in England, an Honorary Member of the Hon. Artillery Company of the City of London, Royal Archer of Scotland, Citizen of Edinburgh, Cupar, St. Andrew's, Hawick, &c. &c.
Lunardi, Vincent, 1759-1806.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Books
Doctors and the dawn of aerostation / by F. John Poynton.
Poynton, F. John.Date: 1923- Books
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Breslaw's last legacy: or, the conjurer unmasked. Containing all that is curious, pleasing, entertaining, and comical, ...
Date: 1794- Ephemera
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Grand philosophical, optical, & mechanical exhibition / by M. de Philipsthal.
Philipsthal, Paul de, -1829.Date: [1784?]- Pictures
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The evolution of a monkey into a boy and a balloon into a cage for a parrot; representing Darwin's theories. Wood engraving after C. Bennett, 1863.
Bennett, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1829-1867.Date: 1863Reference: 12104iPart of: The origin of species, dedicated by natural selection to Dr. Charles Darwin- Books
Cardiac investigations and coronary angioplasty / British Heart Foundation.
Date: [c.1987]- Pictures
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A voluminous woman crossing a bush in a circle of foliage to get to a latrine; perhaps representing Garnerin's London balloon flights of the time. Etching by J. Gillray, 1802.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 3 August 1802Reference: 12192i- Videos
Infusofeed balloons.
Date: 1993- Archives and manuscripts
Brook: Photographs: Durex Balloon Campaign
Date: 1992Reference: SA/BRO/K/4/8Part of: Brook: Archives