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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
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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
Japanese paper balloon bombs : the first ICBM.
Morris, Henry, 1925-2019.Date: 1982- Books
Take control of your weight... and your life : BIB (Bioenterics Intragastric Balloon) Program / Inamed Health.
Date: [2004]- Pictures
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The yellow silhouettes of a man and woman holding on to a group of condoms blown up as balloons, one bearing the advert for 'Trust Bào Dàm an Toàn'; above a green world bearing the words 'HIV-AIDS'; a safe sex advertisement to prevent AIDS by V. Thuyêt. Colour lithograph ca. 1996.
Date: [1996?]Reference: 678205i- 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]- Books
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A letter addressed to a female friend. By Mrs. Sage, the first English female aerial traveller; describing the General Appearance and Effects of her expedition with Mr. Lunardi's balloon; Which ascended from St. George's Fields on Wednesday, 29th June, 1785, accompanied by George Biggin, Esq.
Sage, L. A., Mrs.Date: [1785]- Books
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A letter addressed to a female friend. By Mrs. Sage, the first English female aerial traveller; describing The General Appearance and Effects of her expedition with Mr. Lunardi's balloon; Which ascended from St. George's Fields on Wednesday, 29th June, 1785, accompanied by George Biggin, Esq.
Sage, L. A., Mrs.Date: [1785]- Books
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Alter et idem, a new review, No.I. For a summer month in 1794.
Date: 1794- Pictures
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The Great Industrial Exhibition, Dublin, 1853: a hot-air balloon flies above. Lithograph.
Date: 1853Reference: 36445i- Books
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British balloon, which ascended from Tottenham-court-road the 23d of March last, with its constructor, Count Zambeccari, accompanied by Admiral Sir Edward Vernon, and performed a voyage of thirty-seven miles, in the space of a single hour.
Date: 1785]- Pictures
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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- Pictures
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Ballooning: hydrogen barrels and other equipment used in ballooning. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1803.
Date: Octr. 1. 1803Reference: 36293i- Pictures
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Honourable Artillery Company ground, London: people gather in the streets and on roof tops to watch the Lunardi hydrogen balloon going over their heads in the sky, 1784. Process print.
Reference: 36435i- Pictures
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A child's drawing of a smiling figure wearing a hat and appearing to hold numerous balloons beneath a personified sun and grass littered with red flowers; an illustration by Vasna [?] representing an advertisement for an information helpline for children with HIV by Poenki vzw - Positief en Kind [[HIV] Positive and Child]. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
Date: [1996?]Reference: 675472i- Archives and manuscripts
Brook: Photographs: Durex Balloon Campaign
Date: 1992Reference: SA/BRO/K/4/8Part of: Brook: Archives- Pictures
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A procession of carriages watched by crowds lining the streets, with soldiers on parade: a hot-air balloon flies overhead. Coloured engraving, 1814.
Date: 1st Feby. 1820Reference: 36447i- Pictures
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A man holding a bunch of condoms as balloons as another man with a heart above his head does a double take at a glamorous woman passing by above; with diagrams on how AIDS is not contracted along the bottom; an advertisement for safe sex by the OFfice of Federal Health and Swiss AIDS Foundation. Colour lithograph by Birez [?].
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 674991i- Archives and manuscripts
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Unknown - The British Balloon
Date: c.1880Reference: DGH1/7/3/1/103Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Pictures
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A man in red pvc standing vertically with his arms by his sides representing an ejaculating penis with two balloons as scrotums at his feet; surrounded in a purple silhouette in the shape of a condom against a blue background; with the message in Swedish, condoms are everywhere; a safe sex advertisement by the RFSL/RFSU and Malmöhus County Council. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
Date: [1996?]Reference: 676395i- Books
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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- Books
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An exact and authentic narrative of M. Blanchard's third aerial voyage, from Rouen in Normandy, on the 18th of July, 1784. Accompanied by M. Boby; in which they traversed a space of forty-five miles in two hours and a quarter, inclusive of the time employed in raising and depressing the machine in the air. To which are added Four Certificates, testifying the truth of the relation, and signed by several respectable characters. Translated from the French of M. Blanchard.
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre, 1753-1809.Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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A narrative of the two aerial voyages of Doctor Jeffries with Mons. Blanchard; with meteorological observations and remarks. The first voyage, on the thirtieth of November, 1784, from London into Kent: the second, on the seventh of January, 1785, from England into France. By Doctor Jeffries. Presented to the Royal Society, April 14, 1785; and read before them, January, 1786.
Jeffries, John, 1745-1819.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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An exact and authentic narrative of M. Blanchard's third aerial voyage, from Rouen in Normandy, on the 18th of July, 1784. Accompanied by M. Boby; in which they traversed a space of forty-five miles in two hours and a quarter, inclusive of the time employed in raising and depressing the machine in the air. To which are added four certificates, testifying the truth of the relation, and signed by several respectable characters. Translated from the French of M. Blanchard.
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre, 1753-1809.Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [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, Palmistry, &c. with a Selection of Jests, Riddles, Epigrams, and Bon Molts. The Whole to form A real Book of Knowledge in the Art of Conjuration. In which is displayed, the Way to make the Air Balloon and Inflammable Air.
Date: 1784