Aeolipile-Aerostation
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1800-1899Description
Pages from an encyclopedia with entries on the history of aerostation. Some passages are taken from "Astra Castra: Experiments and adventures in the atmosphere" by Hatton Turnor and Monk Mason's "Aeronautica; or, Sketches illustrative of the theory and practice of Aerostation. For more information about this item, visit https://archivesspace.mit.edu/repositories/2/digital_objects/647
Subject
Aeronautics, Inventions, Balloons -- History, Balloonists, Balloons (aircraft), Balloon ascensions, Hygrometers, Green, Charles, 1785-1870, Blanchard, Jean-Pierre, 1753-1809, Montgolfier, Jacques-Etienne, 1745-1799, Montgolfier, Joseph-Michel, 1740-1810, Charles, Jacques Alexandre César, 1746-1823, Robert, M. N. (Marie-Noël), 1761-1826, Jeffries, John, 1745-1819, Cavallo, Tiberius, 1749-1809, Mason, Monck, 1803-1889, Hollond, Robert, Gay-Lussac, Joseph Louis, 1778-1850, Saussure, Horace Bénédict de, 1740-1799, Orléans, Louis Philippe, duc d', 1725-1785, Leslie, John, Sir, 1766-1832