Details d'un Projet de Machine Aerostatique [Capture balloon]: long and sectional views of gondola – Vintage Wall Art
![Details d'un Projet de Machine Aerostatique [Capture balloon]: long and sectional views of gondola, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/55/55129989986a-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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This antique engraving of Details d'un Projet de Machine Aerostatique [Capture balloon]: long and sectional views of gondola brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Details d'un Projet de Machine Aerostatique [Capture balloon]: long and sectional views of gondola
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Lead detail: this print shows a proposed "capture balloon," with its gondola drawn in both long and sectional views, which sets it apart from the general balloon scenes on this board. The caption card dates it to around 1800, though that date is unverified, and cites plate 4 of a work by "Mensnier," probably the French engineer Jean-Baptiste Meusnier, known for his late-1780s designs for steerable airships. Sectional drawings like these show how the gondola was meant to be built, which makes the print useful to historians of early aeronautical engineering.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Subjects | Illus. in: Mensnier, reproduction de la ..., pl. 4. 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 × 1,104 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-146975 |
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