Watercolour design for a balloon with rowing sails and car – Vintage Wall Art
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This rare historic image captures Watercolour design for a balloon with rowing sails and car in remarkable detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Watercolour design for a balloon with rowing sails and car
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Few balloon designs of the early nineteenth century show how inventors hoped to steer their craft, and this watercolour pairs a gas envelope with rowing-style sails and a car slung beneath it. Makers of the period believed that oars or sails might push a balloon against the wind, though no such device could overcome the basic fact that a balloon drifts with the air around it. The sketch belongs to the wider British enthusiasm for aerial travel, which followed Charles Green's long-distance flights from London in the 1830s and inspired many proposals for "navigable" balloons.
| Original scan | 3,364 × 4,225 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 02314u[Proposed design for balloon |
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