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Details d'un Projet de Machine Aerostatique [Capture balloon]: front view of entire balloon – Vintage Wall Art

Details d'un Projet de Machine Aerostatique [Capture balloon]: front view of entire balloon, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving
Details d'un Projet de Machine Aerostatique [Capture balloon]: front view of entire balloon, [no date recorded on caption card]. Antique engraving from the Ballooning collection.

(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 rare antique engraving captures Details d'un Projet de Machine Aerostatique [Capture balloon]: front view of entire balloon in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Details d'un Projet de Machine Aerostatique [Capture balloon]: front view of entire balloon

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Here the whole envelope is shown from the front, its long, tapering form setting it apart from the round balloons of the period. Jean-Baptiste Meusnier, a military engineer and member of the Académie des sciences, proposed this kind of elongated gas bag in 1785, to be driven by oars and steered by a rudder, so that balloon travel could be controlled rather than left to the wind. The record cites an illustration in a plated work on his design, but the caption card's date of about 1800 is unverified, so it should be read with caution.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 print : engraving.
SubjectsIllus. in: Mensnier, reproduction de la ..., pl. 10-11. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Balloons--ca. 1800.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,134 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-146979

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