[Interior view of the balloon] – Vintage Photo Print
![[Interior view of the balloon], [no date recorded on caption card] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/3a/3af4ef0d56db-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic print of [Interior view of the balloon]. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Interior view of the balloon]
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Few balloon illustrations of this period show the inside of the envelope, which makes this plate unusual. It comes from Jean-Baptiste Meusnier's *Détails d'un projet de machine aérostatique*, the engineer's plan for a steerable airship. Printed after the Montgolfier brothers' first hot-air and hydrogen flights in 1783, Meusnier's design proposed an elongated envelope with an internal air chamber to help it hold its shape and control its movement. The plate is worth studying for its attention to structure, since it shows how Meusnier was thinking about the balloon as a machine rather than only a bag of gas.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Meushier, Details d'un proget de machine aerostatique, pl. 8. No ref. copy. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Balloons. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,038 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-171210 |
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