Details d'un Projet de Machine Aerostatique [Capture balloon]: hooks and fastenings – Vintage Print
![Details d'un Projet de Machine Aerostatique [Capture balloon]: hooks and fastenings, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/92/92b258cc3bd1-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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Step back in time with Details d'un Projet de Machine Aerostatique [Capture balloon]: hooks and fastenings, an antique engraving rich in period detail. 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]: hooks and fastenings
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Rather than the whole craft, this engraving isolates the hooks and fastenings that would have secured the rigging and car to a balloon's envelope. The plate appears to relate to a design by Jean-Baptiste Meusnier, the French engineer who proposed an elongated, steerable airship with oars and an internal air bag in 1783. The caption card dates the print to about 1800, though that date is unverified. Close studies of small mechanical parts like these show how seriously early aeronauts treated the practical problem of attaching loads to fabric envelopes.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Subjects | Illus. in: Mensnier, reproduction de la ..., pl. 5. 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 × 1,131 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-146976 |
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