Details d'un Projet de Machine Aerostatique [Capture balloon]: gondola and lower third of balloon – Antique Print
![Details d'un Projet de Machine Aerostatique [Capture balloon]: gondola and lower third of balloon, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/c7/c714d8762e03-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]: gondola and lower third of balloon, an antique engraving rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Details d'un Projet de Machine Aerostatique [Capture balloon]: gondola and lower third of balloon
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The focus here is the gondola and the lower third of the envelope, the parts of the design that show how the maker meant to carry passengers and steer the craft. The record links it to plate 7 of a work associated with Jean-Baptiste Meusnier, the French engineer who proposed an elongated, steerable airship in 1785 in place of the round balloons of the day. The record gives no reliable date, and its caption data is unverified, but the tracings place the engraving around 1800, when French interest in ballooning remained strong after the Montgolfier flights of the 1780s.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Subjects | Illus. in: Mensnier, reproduction de la ..., pl. 7. 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-146977 |
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