[Airship powered by an electric motor developed by Albert and Gaston Tissandier departing from Auteuil, Paris, France, October 8, 1883] / Poyet, del ; E. A. Tilly. – Vintage Wall Art
![[Airship powered by an electric motor developed by Albert and Gaston Tissandier departing from Auteuil, Paris, France, October 8, 1883] / Poyet, del ; E. A. Tilly., [1883] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f3/f32bdf0f29b3-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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Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of [Airship powered by an electric motor developed by Albert and Gaston Tissandier departing from Auteuil, Paris, France, October 8, 1883] / Poyet, del ; E. A. Tilly.. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Airship powered by an electric motor developed by Albert and Gaston Tissandier departing from Auteuil, Paris, France, October 8, 1883] / Poyet, del ; E. A. Tilly.
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Few early airships could navigate on their own power, and this engraving shows one that did. It records the electric-powered dirigible that Albert and Gaston Tissandier flew from Auteuil, on the western edge of Paris, on October 8, 1883. The brothers were aeronauts and scientists, and their craft used a battery-driven electric motor to propel itself through the air rather than relying on wind alone. Poyet made the drawing and E. A. Tilly cut the wood engraving, a method that let late nineteenth-century newspapers and books reproduce scenes like this one. The print comes from the Tissandier collection and reflects the 1880s fascination with powered flight.
| Created / published | [1883] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Genre | Wood engravings 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Title devised from information in Dollfus, C., Histoire de l'aéronautique, 1942, p. 130. Tissandier collection. |
| Subjects | Airships--France--Paris--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,070 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-113653 |
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