Historic Ballooning Illustrations

Collection of 19th century engravings depicting various designs of aerostats, including steerable balloons and notable historical events.

Engraving depicting Giffard's Captive hydrogen balloon 'Captive' in the Cremorne Gardens, London. Dated 19th Century
Engraving depicting Giffard's Captive hydrogen balloon 'Captive' in the Cremorne Gardens, London. Dated 19th Century
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Guiton de Morveau (1737-1816) French chemist, making the first flight in a dirigible (steerable) balloon, 12 June 1784. Chromolithograph c1883. Aeronautics Aviation Ballooning Flying
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Botanical and zoological illustration by F. E. Guérin. From Dictionnaire pittoresque d'histoire naturelle et des phénomènes de la nature - 1833/1834
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Ascent of a balloon, hot air balloon, on the Field of Mars near Paris in 1783, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century
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First manned flight in a hydrogen-filled balloon made by Jacques Charles and Nicolas-Louis Robert from the Tuileries, Paris, France, 1 December 1783. Travelled 36km in 2 hours 5 minutes. Aeronautics Aviation Ballooning Flying
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Engraving depicting Terzuolo's navigable balloon. Dated 19th Century
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The Underground of St. Clement of Rome, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1878.
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Corliss engine. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1876. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Exhibitions, Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
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Illustration from 'De La Terre a la Lune'('From the Earth to the Moon') by Jules Verne. Maston nearly falls into the barrel of the gun from which the moon rocket will be fired. Date: 1865
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Guiton de Morveau (1737-1816) French chemist, making the first flight in a dirigible (steerable) balloon, 12 June 1784. Chromolithograph c1883. Aeronautics Aviation Ballooning Flying
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Illustration of the A�rostatic Globe What the Lord Charles / and Robert in the Garden of Thuillery to Paris the 1st Decemb. 1783. Made your trend. (Ti)
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Illustration of a Whale remains used for Marine study. Dated 1870
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Engraving depicting Marin Mersenne performing an experiment to prove the rotation of the earth: ball fired from vertical cannon did not fall back down the barrel. Marin Mersenne (1588-1648) a French theologian, philosopher, mathematician and music theorist. Dated 17th Century
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This technical collotype photograph from around 1900 shows a figure or object covered, demonstrating the collotype printing technique and visual composition.
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U.S. Weather Bureau. Weather balloon ca. between 1909 and 1920.
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Storing the transatlantic telegraphic cable before laying it, illustration by P Blanchard from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 1176, Volume XLVI, September 9, 1865.
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Photograph taken during the Meteor Expedition by F. Spiess. The German Atlantic expedition. Dated 1927
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Depicts the large meteor observed on August 18, 1783, created as an aquatint in 1783, showing the sky, trajectory, and landscape below.
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A shaving machine powered by steam. Coloured etching by R. Seymour.
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Diagrammatic view of Wellman's airship
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History of air navigation. Device invented by the Russian professor M. Baranowski to give direction to the balloons. Engraving. La Ilustración Española y Americana, 1882.
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'THE WAR OF THE WORLDS' A Martian machine over the flooding Thames Date: First published: 1898
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Construction Sounding apparatus used for the preparatory works of the Eiffel Tower at the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. Old illustration from La Nature 1887
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Illustration showing John Henry Pepper (1821-1900), demonstrating the giant induction coil at the Polytechnic Institute, London, before Princesses Louise and Beatrice.
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Aircraft and Balloons Used by Some of the Air Pioneers Who Were Contemporary With Samuel Franklin Cody. An observation balloon being inflated.
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Professor Faraday Lecturing at the Royal Institution, Before H, Prince Albert the Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred, artist
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Postcard of Telescope at Grand Canyon. ca. 1912, Telescope in the Lookout. Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona H-1890 The telescope in this tower in not the usual type of single-barrel machine. It is constructed exactly like an opera glass, and the layman experience no difficulty in seeing through it, as it needs no more adjustment than any ordinary opera glass and the field of vision is ten to twenty times greater than through the ordinary single-barrel machine. The north rim of the Canyon, thi
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Robert Hutchings Goddard (October 5, 1882 ñ August 10, 1945) American Engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, who had been experimenting for a number of years with rockets, launched the world's first liquid-propelled rocket, which is shown here. It covered a distance of 184 ft. at an average speed of 64 m.p.h.
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The great telescope at the Paris Exhibition. Theoretically the instrument should display an image of the moon at an apparent average distance of about forty miles. Date: 1900
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Ciampino: launching a radiosonde for meteorological measurements.
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The astronomer of the Place du Châtelet in Paris, at the time of the observations of the planet Venus, February 1889. France. Europe. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1889
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'Patent Landau', 1809. Creator: Unknown.
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Projectile of 1500 kilograms of a Krupp gun being manufactured. Old illustration from La Nature 1887
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Transmission of signals with balloons, woodcut 1888
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L'homme dans la Lune' (The Man on the Moon) from the frontispiece of novel by Gonzales. Man uses two ropes to guide his aircraft powered by flying birds. From 'Histoire des Ballons' by Gaston Tissandier, Paris, 1887. Aviation
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Flying males in art, Views of Bad Elster, 1904, Vogtlandkreis, Bad Elster, Blick über Bad Elster, Fliegender Mann, Germany
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Whaling in the Ross Sea Nitrate negatives, black-and-white negatives
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A philosopher giving an astronomical lecture on an orrery. Mezzotint by W. Pether after J. Wright, ca. 1780.
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Engraving depicting a meteor as seen from Westminster, London. Dated 19th Century
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Richard Owen (1804-1892) British naturalist, and anatomist, giving a Friday Evening Discourse on fossils at the Royal Institution, London. Cartoon by Richard Doyle from 'Punch', London 1849. Wood engraving.
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Elephant fish skeleton (Callorhychus antarticus) photographic prints, black-and-white prints
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NIKOLA TESLA American electrician and inventor, born in Croatia of Serbian parents; seen here in his laboratory at Colorado Springs in 1899/1900 Date: 1856 - 1943
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Sir Isaac Newton's sundial in the Royal Society. Date: late 17th century
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International lectricity exhibition, Palace of Industry, Paris, France, illustration by V Rose from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 2008, Volume LXXVIII, August 20, 1881.
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History of navigation. The Wheel. Iconographic Encyclopaedia of science, Literature and Art, 19th century. Color.
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South Carolina's 'Ultimatum'. Editorial cartoon illustrating South Carolina governor Francis Pickens's threat of secession against President Buchanan. Currier & Ives engraving, 1861
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Photograph taken during the Meteor Expedition by F. Spiess. The German Atlantic expedition. Dated 1927