EditorialLouis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau, leader of a corps of balloonists for the French Revolutionary Army. Woodblock engraving by H. Rousseau after E. Thomas from Louis Figuier's "Les Merveilles de la Science: Aerostats" (Marvels of Science: Air Balloons), F...
EditorialPortraits of three balloonists Ippolito Caffi, Francesco Arban, and G. Seiffard, with a small view of them in an ascending balloon, Rome, 1847, Italy.
EditorialModel of a statue dedicated to French balloonists, Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier, featuring a double profile portrait from a gold medal designed by Houdon and an inflated balloon by H. Thiriat, sc.
EditorialPrint shows the death of balloonists Jean-Fran?ois Pilatre de Rozier and Jules Romain when their Royal Balloon crashed near Boulogne, France, June 15, 1785, in what is considered the first aerial disaster.
EditorialModel of a statue dedicated to French balloonists, Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier, featuring a double profile portrait from a gold medal designed by Houdon and an inflated balloon by H. Thiriat, sc.
EditorialPortraits of three balloonists Ippolito Caffi, Francesco Arban, and G. Seiffard, with a small view of them in an ascending balloon, Rome, 1847, Italy.
EditorialPrint shows the death of balloonists Jean-Fran?ois Pilatre de Rozier and Jules Romain when their Royal Balloon crashed near Boulogne, France, June 15, 1785, in what is considered the first aerial disaster.
EditorialA pibal drifts upwards, showing balloonists where the air currents are flowing, in the sky near Enumclaw, Wash. on July 21, 2021. (Ruth Fremson/The New York Times)
EditorialFragments, Medium: cotton Technique: block printed on plain weave, Two different balloons arranged in vertical stripes as an offset pattern. Both balloons have baskets carrying passengers and are probably after contemporary prints of balloonists. Picot...
EditorialWithout an aeronaut'. The first lady balloonists to make ascents without a professional pilot: Mme Surcouf and Mille. Gache. . The Sketch. London, 1906. Source: The Sketch, 7 November 1906 page 101.
EditorialPrint shows the death of balloonists Jean-Fran?ois Pilatre de Rozier and Jules Romain when their Royal Balloon crashed near Boulogne, France, June 15, 1785, in what is considered the first aerial disaster.
EditorialMonument to the Zenith disaster, built in Ciron Indre, on the plan of Mr. Albert Tissandier, architect, Monument to the balloonists Th?odore Sivel and Joseph Croce-Spinneli, who died aboard the balloon Zenith on 15 April 1875, Signed: T.S., A. Tissandi...
EditorialPrint shows the death of balloonists Jean-Fran?ois Pilatre de Rozier and Jules Romain when their Royal Balloon crashed near Boulogne, France, June 15, 1785, in what is considered the first aerial disaster.
EditorialWithout an aeronaut'. The first lady balloonists to make ascents without a professional pilot: Mme Surcouf and Mille. Gache. . The Sketch. London, 1906. Source: The Sketch, 7 November 1906 page 101.
EditorialPortraits of three balloonists Ippolito Caffi, Francesco Arban, and G. Seiffard, with a small view of them in an ascending balloon, Rome, 1847, Italy.
EditorialBust-length double profile of the Montgolfier brothers, French balloonists; after the gold medal designed by Houdon. Two images below portrait show "Projet d'un Monument a elever a Mr. Charles" in Paris and "Cartes des premieres Voyages aerostatiques,"...
EditorialModel of a statue dedicated to French balloonists, Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier, featuring a double profile portrait from a gold medal designed by Houdon and an inflated balloon by H. Thiriat, sc.
EditorialPrint shows the death of balloonists Jean-Fran?ois Pilatre de Rozier and Jules Romain when their Royal Balloon crashed near Boulogne, France, June 15, 1785, in what is considered the first aerial disaster.
EditorialLouis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau, leader of a corps of balloonists for the French Revolutionary Army. Woodblock engraving by H. Rousseau after E. Thomas from Louis Figuier's "Les Merveilles de la Science: Aerostats" (Marvels of Science: Air Balloons), F...
EditorialModel of a statue dedicated to French balloonists, Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier, featuring a double profile portrait from a gold medal designed by Houdon and an inflated balloon by H. Thiriat, sc.
EditorialBust-length double profile of the Montgolfier brothers, French balloonists; after the gold medal designed by Houdon. Two images below portrait show "Projet d'un Monument a elever a Mr. Charles" in Paris and "Cartes des premieres Voyages aerostatiques,"...
EditorialPortraits of three balloonists Ippolito Caffi, Francesco Arban, and G. Seiffard, with a small view of them in an ascending balloon, Rome, 1847, Italy.
EditorialPrint shows the death of balloonists Jean-Fran?ois Pilatre de Rozier and Jules Romain when their Royal Balloon crashed near Boulogne, France, June 15, 1785, in what is considered the first aerial disaster.