Details d'un Projet de Machine Aerostatique [Capture balloon]: 4 views of moorings – Historic Reproduction
![Details d'un Projet de Machine Aerostatique [Capture balloon]: 4 views of moorings, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/3e/3e060053cc73-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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Details d'un Projet de Machine Aerostatique [Capture balloon]: 4 views of moorings comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Details d'un Projet de Machine Aerostatique [Capture balloon]: 4 views of moorings
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Four separate views of the mooring arrangements set this engraving apart from the many balloon prints that show only the envelope or basket. The record cites a plate in a work attributed to Meusnier, most likely Jean-Baptiste Meusnier, whose 1780s designs for steerable airships tried to turn the balloon from something carried by the wind into a craft that could be driven and controlled. Securing an aerostat to the ground was a practical concern for every balloon, since a craft that could not be safely tethered was difficult to launch and recover. The caption card suggests a date around 1800, but that date is unverified, so the plate may record earlier design work.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Subjects | Illus. in: Mensnier, reproduction de la ..., pl. 14. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Balloons--ca. 1800. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,061 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-146980 |
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