Aèrostat système Vaussin Chardanne (brevetè). Moyens simples et peu couteuse pour faire descendre et remonter à volanté un ballon dans l'air sans perté de gaz et de lest, sans crainté l'accidents / Villenueve St. Georges (Seine et Oise), le novembre 1853, Vaussin Chardanne. – Antique Wall Art
![Aèrostat système Vaussin Chardanne (brevetè). Moyens simples et peu couteuse pour faire descendre et remonter à volanté un ballon dans l'air sans perté de gaz et de lest, sans crainté l'accidents / Villenueve St. Georges (Seine et Oise), le novembre 1853, Vaussin Chardanne., [1853] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/3e/3e60b31aa32f-L.webp)
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This rare historic drawing captures Aèrostat système Vaussin Chardanne (brevetè). Moyens simples et peu couteuse pour faire descendre et remonter à volanté un ballon dans l'air sans perté de gaz et de lest, sans crainté l'accidents / Villenueve St. Georges (Seine et Oise), le novembre 1853, Vaussin Chardanne. in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Aèrostat système Vaussin Chardanne (brevetè). Moyens simples et peu couteuse pour faire descendre et remonter à volanté un ballon dans l'air sans perté de gaz et de lest, sans crainté l'accidents / Villenueve St. Georges (Seine et Oise), le novembre 1853, Vaussin Chardanne.
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Rather than showing a balloon in flight, this patent drawing lays out a method for lowering and raising a balloon at will without losing gas or ballast. Dated November 1853 and datelined Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, a town in the Seine-et-Oise department south of Paris, it is rendered in ink and watercolor. Aeronauts of the 1850s typically changed altitude by venting gas or dropping sandbags, both costly and sometimes dangerous, so proposals like this one reflect a persistent effort to make flight controllable. The drawing belongs to the Tissandier collection, which preserves such inventions.
| Created / published | [1853] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : ink, watercolor. |
| Genre | Patent drawings 1850-1860.Watercolors Color 1850-1860. |
| Notes | Title from item. Tissandier collection. |
| Subjects | Balloons (Aircraft)--French--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,000 × 4,025 px · prints to 17 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-224010 |
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