Grand Ballon Captif à Vapeur de la Cour des Tuileries – Antique Print
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Step back in time with Grand Ballon Captif à Vapeur de la Cour des Tuileries, a historic image rich in period detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Grand Ballon Captif à Vapeur de la Cour des Tuileries
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This picture shows the great steam-powered captive balloon that was moored at the Tuileries, the royal garden and palace grounds in central Paris. Its tether ran to a steam winch on the ground, so the balloon could rise and fall while staying anchored. The engineer Henri Giffard, who had earlier built a steam-powered dirigible in 1852, developed these tethered ascents as a way to give ordinary visitors a view over the city. The scene shows how Paris used spectacle and new technology to draw crowds during the period of world's fairs, when the sky itself became a public attraction.
| Original scan | 3,714 × 5,000 px · prints to 12 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 02590u Grand ballon captif |
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