Box 1
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Mechanism for steering and propelling a balloon. , Late 18th-early 19th century.
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Identifier: Subsubseries 1.2.2:
Scope and Contents
From the subsubseries:
This subsubseries includes prints (both original and reproduction), handbills, and plates from publications, and is arranged chronologically by the date of the event or (in the case of portraits) of publication.Eighteenth-century events represented include the first hydrogen balloon ascent, Champ de Mars, Paris, August 27, 1783; the first three human balloon ascents (by François Pilatre de Rosier and François Laurent, Marquis d'Arlandes, from la Muette, November 21, 1783; by...
Dates:
Late 18th-early 19th century.