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The view from a balloon on a flight over southern England in 1881. Coloured wood engraving after W.B. Murray, 1881.
Murray, William Bazett, active 1871-1890.Date: [1881]Reference: 36420i- Pictures
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A man flying above a church with wings and balloons attached to him. Coloured wood engraving, 1877.
Date: [1877]Reference: 36654i- Pictures
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The basket of a balloon with two men inside, and an engine with propellors. Wood engraving by E.A Tilly.
Tilly, E. A.Reference: 36327i- Pictures
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Engineering: an assortment of inventions. Engraving by W. Lowry.
Reference: 45488i- Pictures
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- Ephemera
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Alter attitudes to AIDS / Liverpool Health Promotion Agency.
Date: [1992?]- 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 the newest Songs sung this Season at Vauxhall, and other Places of Publick Entertainment: Jests, Riddles, Epigrams, and Bon Mots. 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: 1784- 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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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- Pictures
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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- Pictures
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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- Pictures
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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- Pictures
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Pneumatics: an air-rifle and a kind of spirit lamp [?]. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1802.
Date: 2 September 1802Reference: 47572i- 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- Pictures
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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- Pictures
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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- Pictures
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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- Pictures
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- Pictures
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Men filling a balloon with hydrogen. Coloured etching.
Reference: 36349i- 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- Pictures
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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- Pictures
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A balloon piloted by Charles Green crash-lands on Pirbright Common, Surrey, in 1852. Coloured wood engraving.
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Le Havre seen from a balloon. Coloured lithograph by Jules Arnout after himself.
Arnout, Jules, 1814-1868.Date: XReference: 36442i- Pictures
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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- Pictures
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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