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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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Commedia dell'arte characters are raising a balloon by having it pulled by horses. Coloured etching, ca. 1785.
Reference: 36353i- Pictures
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Four commedia dell'arte characters are raising a balloon by winching it up with ropes. Process print.
Reference: 36321i- Books
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The principles, history, & use, of air-balloons. Also, a prospectus of Messrs. Blanchard & Baker's intended aerial voyage from the city of New-York.
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre, 1753-1809.Date: 1796- Books
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Journal of my forty-fifth ascension, being the first performed in America, on the ninth of January, 1793. Aethereum tranabit iter, quo numine Blanchard? Impavidus, fortem non timet Icariam.
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre, 1753-1809.Date: M,DCC,XCIII. [1793]