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URI
https://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/193546
Date
1846-1856
Description
Clipping with an article describing historical balloon ascensions, including a detailed description of Ernest Petin's airship. Two illustrations show the ship design.
 
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Subject
Inventions, Balloonists, Balloons -- History, Balloons (aircraft), Airships, Blanchard, Jean-Pierre, 1753-1809, Orléans, Louis Philippe, duc d', 1725-1785, Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790, Arlandes, François Laurent, marquis d', 1742-1809, Lunardi, Vincent, 1759-1806, Ampère, André-Marie, 1775-1836, Petin, Ernest, 1812-1878, Rambaud, active 1784, Pilâtre de Rozier, Jean-François, 1754-1785, Robert, M. N. (Marie-Noël), 1761-1826, Charles, Jacques Alexandre César, 1746-1823, Montgolfier, Joseph-Michel, 1740-1810, Montgolfier, Jacques-Etienne, 1745-1799, Sadler, John, Cocking, Robert, Green, Charles, 1785-1870, Godard, Eugéne, 1827-1890, Gale, George Burcher, Jeffries, John, 1745-1819
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