Competition drawing of airship designs with French handwritten caption – Vintage Print
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This rare historic drawing captures Competition drawing of airship designs with French handwritten caption in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Competition drawing of airship designs with French handwritten caption
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Rather than a photograph of a finished craft, this item is a competition drawing of airship designs, its French handwritten caption still legible along the margins. Drawings like this one were common in the decades when lighter-than-air travel was being argued over in France, when engineers, inventors and hobbyists put forward rival hull shapes, engines and steering arrangements in the hope of winning prizes or backing. Pages of this kind show how many ideas were in circulation before rigid and semi-rigid airships settled into a few workable types. The handwriting is worth a close look, since it records the designers' own explanations of their proposals.
| Original scan | 4,315 × 3,356 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 02317u Concours sur |
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