In August 1829
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1829Description
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. For more information about this item, visit https://archivesspace.mit.edu/repositories/2/digital_objects/620
Subject
Balloons -- History, Balloon ascensions, Balloonists, Montgolfier, Joseph-Michel, 1740-1810, Montgolfier, Jacques-Etienne, 1745-1799, Pilâtre de Rozier, Jean-François, 1754-1785