Early European balloon, parachute, and aircraft designs
- Title: Early European balloon, parachute, and aircraft designs
- Date Created/Published: 1784-1891, bulk 1852-1870.
- Medium: 29 prints : chiefly b&w ; 59 x 44 cm. or smaller.
- Summary: European prints show designs, patents, and technical illustrations for hot-air and gas balloons, airships, and heavier-than-air vehicles, many incorporating concepts for navigation and motor driven flight. Also, parachute designs; diagrams showing calculations for balloon aerodynamics, altitude and distance.
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- Call Number: LOT 13404 (H) (Use Digital Images) [P&P]
- Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
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- Digitized images of these items display with associated descrpitions in the Prints & Photographs Division Online Catalog, http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html
- LOT title devised by Library staff.
- Includes works by various European artists, designers, and printmakers.
- Formats include lithographs and etchings with some engravings.
- Print captions in French, English, and German.
- Transfer; Aeronautics Division; ca. 1954.
- Forms part of the Tissandier collection.
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- Part of: Visual materials from the Tissandier collection
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- Reproduction Number: ---
- Call Number: LOT 13404 (H) (Use Digital Images) [P&P]
- Medium: 29 prints : chiefly b&w ; 59 x 44 cm. or smaller.
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- Call Number: LOT 13404 (H) (Use Digital Images) [P&P]
- Medium: 29 prints : chiefly b&w ; 59 x 44 cm. or smaller.
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