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In August 1829

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Clipping from Time's Telescope of 1829, with the last stanza of a poem, above an illustration of a balloon flying past a monument. Following on the page is an article about man's desire for flight, culminating in the first aerial voyages by the Montgolfier brothers and Pilatre de Rozier in 1783.
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