![[Grand Balloon... de Mr. Genry Giffard, 1878 - Balloon cables under ornate canopy]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE4NzgvMDEvMDEvZ3JhbmQtYmFsbG9vbi1kZS1tci1nZW5yeS1naWZmYXJkLTE4NzgtYmFsbG9vbi1jYWJsZXMtdW5kZXItb3JuYXRlLWNhbm9weS02NDAuanBn/40/30/webp "[Grand Balloon... de Mr. Genry Giffard, 1878 - Balloon cables under ornate canopy]")
[Grand Balloon... de Mr. Genry Giffard, 1878 - Balloon cables under or...
This record contains unverified data from old caption card. Tissandier Collection. Sepia photoprint by Dagron.
Une alerte, place du Carrousel / Lefman, sc. ; PS.
French cartoon shows Prince Don Carlos in a heavily armed balloon that has blown off course appears about to crash into a captive balloon (possibly Henri Giffard's) at the Tuileries Gardens, Paris, France. Ill... More
Nadar / A. Humbert ; relief Marchandeaux., Nadar Collection 1850-1910
French caricature of photographer and balloonist Nadar hanging onto his balloon, "Le Géant," as it drifts with the wind currents. The basket of the balloon is depicted as a camera. Illus. from unidentified per... More
Grand balloon ascent, on Thursday, October 14th, 1841 ... Mr. Gypson, ...
Broadside announcing a balloon ascension by Richard Gypson from Chain Bridge, Spalding, England, 1841. Includes picture of a balloon. At head of title: By permission and under the immediate patronage of the ma... More
Le tricolore, Tissandier Collection, France
Print shows the French "Le Tricolore" balloon in the colors of the French flag with three passengers, possibly Jules Duruof, his wife, and another man, standing in the basket during an ascension in Paris, June ... More
Rival balloons, Tissandier Collection, France, Political Cartoon
British cartoon shows how on a windy day a woman's hat is blown off and takes flight like the balloon shown floating in the distance. Tissandier collection.
![Patent drawing - Aèrostat système Vaussin Chardanne (brevetè). moyens simples et peu couteuse pour faire descendre et remonter à volanté un ballon dans lʹair sans perté le gaz et le leste / / Villeneuve St. Georges (Seine et Oise), le dix octobre mil [...] cinquante trois, Vaussin-Chardanne. Public domain image](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTEvMjIvYWVyb3N0YXQtc3lzdGVtZS12YXVzc2luLWNoYXJkYW5uZS1icmV2ZXRlLW1veWVucy1zaW1wbGVzLWV0LXBldS1jb3V0ZXVzZS1wb3VyLTkwNzZlZS0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/50/webp "Patent drawing - Aèrostat système Vaussin Chardanne (brevetè). moyens simples et peu couteuse pour faire descendre et remonter à volanté un ballon dans lʹair sans perté le gaz et le leste / / Villeneuve St. Georges (Seine et Oise), le dix octobre mil [...] cinquante trois, Vaussin-Chardanne. Public domain image")
Patent drawing - Aèrostat système Vaussin Chardanne (brevetè). moyens ...
Patent design drawing for a system to regulate the altitude of a balloon while preserving gas and ballast. Features a cross section, scaled detail drawings of component parts and an identification key. Tissand... More
![Voiles mobile. Systém Ate. Lanteigne menuisier / [...] Mo[...], '58.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMTAvdm9pbGVzLW1vYmlsZS1zeXN0ZW0tYXRlLWxhbnRlaWduZS1tZW51aXNpZXItbW8tNTgtOWQ5NDE0LTEwMjQuanBn/40/31/webp "Voiles mobile. Systém Ate. Lanteigne menuisier / [...] Mo[...], '58.")
Voiles mobile. Systém Ate. Lanteigne menuisier / [...] Mo[...], '58.
Design drawings for a system of airship navigation proposed by Aug. Lanteigne, utilizing a series of 16 balloons on a single keel. (Source: A.G. Renstrom, Library staff, 1981-82). Tissandier collection.
Aéronautique militaire, 37e régiment d'aviation du Maroc - engagements...
Text only broadside requests that men with experience in a variety of occupations volunteer to join the aeronautics corps for service in Morocco. A red and blue stripe runs diagonally across the text. Tissandi... More
Francisque Arban, aéronaute franc̦ais
Half-length portrait of French balloonist, Francesco Arban. Includes Italian poem by Vincenzo Monti, below title. Library has two versions: b&w (no. 3) and hand-colored (no. 4). Tissandier collection. DCRM(G) ... More
Projet d'appareil, pour évaluer approximativement la force des helices...
Design drawing shows a system for steering an airship using man power to operate propellers. Includes plan and sections. Tissandier collection.
![[Lower part of a large captive balloon moored to a launching platform showing network of ropes and balloon basket with about 10 occupants] / E. A. Tilly.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMjAvbG93ZXItcGFydC1vZi1hLWxhcmdlLWNhcHRpdmUtYmFsbG9vbi1tb29yZWQtdG8tYS1sYXVuY2hpbmctcGxhdGZvcm0tc2hvd2luZy04MWU3OTYtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/53/webp "[Lower part of a large captive balloon moored to a launching platform showing network of ropes and balloon basket with about 10 occupants] / E. A. Tilly.")
[Lower part of a large captive balloon moored to a launching platform ...
Date based on similar print by same artist that depicts an event from 1883. Tissandier collection.
Embrâsement déplorable de la machine aërostatique des Srs. Miolan et J...
Print shows the balloon of Abbé Miolan and Janinet on fire and billowing smoke while being inflated for an ascension on July 11, 1784 at the Luxembourg gardens in Paris. Abbé Miollan, as a cat, and Janinet, as ... More
![Ils font ce qu'ils peuvent air [text] : ou, allez vous Mr. l'Abbé & c. / par Boucault.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMDkvaWxzLWZvbnQtY2UtcXVpbHMtcGV1dmVudC1haXItdGV4dC1vdS1hbGxlei12b3VzLW1yLWxhYmJlLWFuZC1jLXBhci1ib3VjYXVsdC1jZWM1YjgtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/32/webp "Ils font ce qu'ils peuvent air [text] : ou, allez vous Mr. l'Abbé & c. / par Boucault.")
Ils font ce qu'ils peuvent air [text] : ou, allez vous Mr. l'Abbé & c....
Leaflet with song about balloonists l'Abbé Miolan (or Miollan) and Janinet's unsuccessful attempt at an ascent from the Luxembourg Gardens, Paris, 1784. The title page illustration captioned "Le globe en fumée"... More
Jean Louis Carra, né à Pont de Veyle le 11 mars 1742, député du Dépt. ...
Head-and-shoulders profile portrait of Jean-Louis Carra. Tissandier collection.
The chamber of genius / Rowlandson, inv., 1812.
British cartoon shows an artist wearing nightshirt and painting a picture at his home/studio while his wife, children, and a cat are neglected. Among the pictures on the wall in the background is a balloon "Ara... More
Salle de concert du cercie artistique ... Exposition du gigantesque ba...
Broadside announcing a balloon exhibition and ascension by Eugène Godard in his balloon "Cita di Firenze" from the Place St. Michel, Paris. Includes picture of a mirage observed by Godard and Camille Flammarion... More
Le ballons sortis pendant le Siege de Paris, 1870-1871
Broadside about balloon events during the Siege of Paris, 1870-1871. Includes a list of balloons that left Paris, keyed to a map of their descents. Several vignettes show balloons, including "le Richard Wallace... More
F. Chaussier, professeur à la faculté de médecine, membre de l'Institu...
Head-and-shoulders portrait of Francois Chaussier, who conducted some of the first experiments to develop navigational systems for balloons. "Galerie Universelle, no. 216, Publicé par Blaisot" printed below ima... More
Dix-neuvième ascension de Mr. Margat, l'aéronaute ...
Text-only broadside announcing a balloon ascension by Jean Margat in France. Text includes statement by the balloonist. Includes statement by Margat: Les preuves de bienveillance et d'intérêt que j'ai reçues, ... More
![Nouveau système de locomotion aérienne du Docteur Van Hecke / dessine et gravé par [ Ch de Ck? ].](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMjYvbm91dmVhdS1zeXN0ZW1lLWRlLWxvY29tb3Rpb24tYWVyaWVubmUtZHUtZG9jdGV1ci12YW4taGVja2UtZGVzc2luZS1ldC1ncmF2ZS1iNGFjMDMtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/32/webp "Nouveau système de locomotion aérienne du Docteur Van Hecke / dessine et gravé par [ Ch de Ck? ].")
Nouveau système de locomotion aérienne du Docteur Van Hecke / dessine ...
Design drawing for system of harnessing several balloons in descending size to provide the lift to transport various weights of people and mail, proposed by Dr. Van Hecke of Brussels. (Source: A.G. Renstrom, LC... More
![[Interior of Paris Exposition building showing two balloons]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE4ODcvMDEvMDEvaW50ZXJpb3Itb2YtcGFyaXMtZXhwb3NpdGlvbi1idWlsZGluZy1zaG93aW5nLXR3by1iYWxsb29ucy02NDAuanBn/40/27/webp "[Interior of Paris Exposition building showing two balloons]")
[Interior of Paris Exposition building showing two balloons]
This record contains unverified data from old caption card. Tissandier Collection.
Ascension de "l'Amiral Courbet" par M.H. Lachambre diagramme de l'asce...
Diagram shows the altitude maintained at various geographical points by the balloon "L'Amiral Courbet," which ascended from Paris, August 4, 1890 and descended at Montignac, near d'Angoulême, August 5. The ball... More
City desk / World-Telegram photo by Fred Palumbo.
Newspaper editorial staff in the newsroom. NYWT&S staff photo. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection.
Vincent Lunardi Esqr., secretary to the late Neapolitan ambassador, fi...
Head-and-shoulders portrait of Italian balloonist Vincent Lunardi. Tissandier collection.
La quatorzieme expérience aerostatique de M. Blanchard accompagné du C...
Print shows the balloon of Jean-Pierre Blanchard ascending from Lille, France. Tissandier collection.
M. Charles, Head and Shoulders Portrait
Head-and-shoulders profile portrait of French balloonist J.A.C. Charles, who made the first flight in a hydrogen balloon, Dec. 1, 1783. Tissandier collection.
Vorderseite des Marsfeldes, am 1 Vendemiaire des Jahres VII. Wettrenne...
German print shows an imaginary view of the festivities at the Champ de Mars in Paris, France, on September 22, 1798. Includes a chariot race, captive balloon, and burning wooden castle, with spectators watchi... More
Ballon de cuivre. Ateliers de construction, impasse du Maine, no. 10, ...
Admission ticket to an exhibition of a copper balloon in Paris in the late 1850s. Text continues: "Cette machine aérostatique, de forme sphérique, de 10 mètres de diamètre, complètement en cuivre, offre l'impo... More
Salle de conférences ... Conférences experimentales sur la navigation ...
Broadside announcing a conference on flight designs by Camille Vert. Includes pictures of a lighter-than-air 'flying fish' airship and a heavier-than-air 'winged man' ornithopter. Tissandier collection.
Vient de paraitre, les grandes ascensions maritimes par Wilfrid de Fon...
Advertisement for a book on balloon ascensions written by Wilfrid de Fonvielle and published in 1882 by Auguste Ghio, Paris. Includes picture of a man pulling on a rope attached to a balloon with a passenger in... More
M.S. Blanchard, celebre aeronauta, al momento del volo aerostatico da ...
Full-length portrait of French balloonist Marie-Madeleine-Sophie Armand Blanchard, standing in the decorated basket of her balloon during her flight in Milan, Italy, in 1811, in the presence of the imperial and... More
![[Young woman putting flowers on statue of Cupid looks over her shoulder and sees the balloon carrying Jacques Charles and Marie Noel Robert on the first manned gas balloon flight, from Paris, December 1, 1783]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMDYveW91bmctd29tYW4tcHV0dGluZy1mbG93ZXJzLW9uLXN0YXR1ZS1vZi1jdXBpZC1sb29rcy1vdmVyLWhlci1zaG91bGRlci1hbmQtZTQxZjI0LTEwMjQuanBn/40/42/webp "[Young woman putting flowers on statue of Cupid looks over her shoulder and sees the balloon carrying Jacques Charles and Marie Noel Robert on the first manned gas balloon flight, from Paris, December 1, 1783]")
[Young woman putting flowers on statue of Cupid looks over her shoulde...
Accompanied by letter clipped from a book and note by Paul Tissandier. Tissandier collection.
Folies-Bergère travail merveilleux sur le fil de fer par Fontaine
French poster shows aerialist Fontaine, labeled one of "le héros du Niagara" in three views: a small bust portrait, roller skating on a high wire, and walking on stilts on a high wire suspended by a balloon. T... More
Mr. le maris. dʹArlande, premier navigateur aërien / A. Pujos, del. ad...
Half-length portrait of French balloonist Marquis François Laurent d'Arlande in uniform. "Se trouve à Paris chez Mme. Pujos la 2me Maison après le Corps de Garde Place de lʹEestrapade" below image. Tissandier c... More
Aux amateurs de physique - Public domain book illustration
French cartoon shows people crowded outside the Tuileries Garden wall in Paris to view the first balloon ascension of Jacques Charles and Marie-Noël Robert in 1783. Several people are climbing over the wall, in... More