Ticket admitting one person to Mr Lunardi's balloon ascension – Historic Print
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This historic image of Ticket admitting one person to Mr Lunardi's balloon ascension brings a moment of history to your wall. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Ticket admitting one person to Mr Lunardi's balloon ascension
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This ticket admitted one person to a spectacle staged by Vincenzo Lunardi, the Italian aeronaut who made the first balloon flight in Britain. He launched from the Artillery Ground in London in September 1784, and the event drew large crowds who paid for access. Tickets like this one show how ballooning quickly became a paid public entertainment, with ascents watched by people from every rank of society. The flight also had a wider effect, sparking a craze for ballooning across Britain and inspiring many imitators in the years that followed.
| Original scan | 3,321 × 5,000 px · prints to 11 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 02552uThis ticket will admit o |
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