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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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A flying boat devised by Franciscus Lana, with sails and balloons attached to it, and with three men as passengers. Engraving after J.C. Sturm, 1789.
Sturm, Johann Christophorus, 1635-1703.Date: 1st. March 1789Reference: 36652i- Pictures
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Large crowds of people have gathered to watch a hot-air balloon take off. Coloured wood engraving.
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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]- Pictures
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Paris seen from a balloon. Coloured lithograph, 1846, by J. Arnout.
Arnout, Jules, 1814-1868.Date: 1st. February 1846Reference: 36437i- Pictures
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Orléans seen from a balloon. Coloured lithograph by Jules Arnout after himself.
Arnout, Jules, 1814-1868.Date: 1st. February 1846Reference: 36439i- Pictures
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Rouen seen from a balloon. Coloured lithograph by J. Arnout after himself.
Arnout, Jules, 1814-1868.Date: 25 March 1846Reference: 36440i- 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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The balloon "Royal Victoria" being launched at night by Charles Green at Vauxhall Gardens, London, watched by crowds of people. Wood engraving by Dalziel Brothers, 1878.
Date: 1878Reference: 36384i- Pictures
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James Sadler setting off on the proposed first crossing of the Irish Sea from Dublin by balloon, 1812; with details of the hydrogen barrels and equipment. Engraving.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 36294i- Books
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The Balloon almanac, for the year of our Lord, 1787.
Date: [1786]- 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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Four men in the basket of a balloon with some equipment. Wood engraving by Smyth after a photograph by Mayall.
Reference: 36390i- Pictures
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James Sadler setting off on the proposed first crossing of the Irish Sea from Dublin by balloon, 1812. Watercolour.
Reference: 36358i- Pictures
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The ascent of the balloon 'Zenith' above the clouds with its three occupants (Crocé-Spinelli, Tissandier and Sivel) conducting operations, 1875. Coloured wood engraving.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 36313i- 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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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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A large balloon is hanging over the old town hall at Calais preparing for take-off. Coloured wood engraving.
Reference: 36345i- 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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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- 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 balloon sails over the headland and is rescued by a passing ship as it collapses. Coloured wood engraving.
Reference: 36407i- 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- Pictures
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A man with a balloon and rudders strapped to him. Engraving by P. Rothwell after De Bruyn.
Date: Sepr. 1 1802Reference: 36377i- Pictures
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A balloon ascending carrying Robert Cocking with his parachute; Robert Cocking; the parachute descending and about to crash at Lee in London. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 36318i