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A hot air balloon flying over a field. Balloon hot air balloon ride hot air balloon.

Ballongen tömmes vid Tubbarp. Svenska militära styrkor

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

A hot air balloon flying in the blue sky. Balloon hot air flies.

A U.S. Army paratrooper assigned to the 1st Battalion,

A red hot air balloon flying over a field. Red balloon sky.

Kulballong m/1930 lyfter från Bulltofta flygfält.

Artwork: "T.S.C. Lowe's Ballon Tethered at 1,000 Feet Above the York River in 1862". Artist: John McCoy

Siege of Paris 1870 Balloon, France, 19th century

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[Crowd of passengers wave from basket of ascending balloon]

[Crowd of passengers wave from basket of ascending balloon]

[Embossed card shows balloon labelled "rien d'impossible" ascending with passenger]

[Balloon labeled "H. Lachambre," with two men riding in the basket]

["Okahumkee" Steamer with passengers.] Florida Sterescope Cards Collection, NYPL.

[Man-operated balloon.] - Public domain illustration engraving

[Two pilots in airplane]. Getty Museum public domain dedication.

[Man with airplane in hangar] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

[Piazzetta con le 2 Colonne]. Albumen print, Getty Museum. Public domain photograph.

[Balloon "Columba" flying with two passengers]

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Tissandier collection.

Public domain image of a balloon aerostat, early aeronautics, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hot Air Baloons and Gas Baloons

The Tissandier brothers, Gaston Tissandier (1843-1899) and Albert (1839-1906) combine such gifts as balloonist, writer, and illustrator. While Gaston tested the limits of balloon ascension, Albert made drawings of natural phenomena in the upper atmosphere. Gaston studied chemistry and in 1864 became the head of the experimental laboratory of Union Nationales. He was also a teacher at Association Polytechnique. His interest in meteorology led him to take up aviation. His first trip in the air was conducted at Calais in 1868 together with Claude-Jules Dufour, where his balloon drifted out over the sea and was brought back by an air stream of opposite direction in a higher layer of air. In September 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War, he managed to leave the besieged Paris by balloon. Gaston Tissandier reported his meteorological observations to the French Academy of Sciences. In 1873 he founded the weekly scientific magazine La Nature, which he edited until 1896, after which it was continued by others. As a team, the brothers developed a design for an electric-powered airship in 1885: In 1883, Tissandier fit a Siemens electric motor to an airship, thus creating the first electric-powered flight. Gaston's most adventurous air trip took place near Paris in April 1875. He and companions Joseph Crocé-Spinelli, journalist, and Théodore Henri Sivel, naval officer, were able to reach in a balloon the unheard-of altitude of 8,600 meters (28,000 feet). Both of his companions died from breathing the thin air. Tissandier survived but became deaf. The Library of Congress Tissandier Collection contains approximately 975 items documenting the early history of aeronautics with an emphasis on balloon flight in France and other European countries. The pictures, created by many different artists, span the years 1773 to 1910. The collection comprises images of flights the Tissandier brothers participated in as well as flights they observed between 1865 and 1885. Gaston Tissandier flew over enemy lines during the Siege of Paris in 1870, and Albert made drawings of several balloons that were used to carry passengers and supplies over enemy lines.

Alois Senefelder, the inventor of lithography, introduced the subject of colored lithography in 1818. Printers in other countries, such as France and England, were also started producing color prints. The first American chromolithograph—a portrait of Reverend F. W. P. Greenwood—was created by William Sharp in 1840. Chromolithographs became so popular in American culture that the era has been labeled as "chromo civilization". During the Victorian times, chromolithographs populated children's and fine arts publications, as well as advertising art, in trade cards, labels, and posters. They were also used for advertisements, popular prints, and medical or scientific books.

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01/01/1860
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The Tissandier Collection

Chromolithographs

Chromolithograph is printed by multiple applications of lithographic stones, each using a different color ink.
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A Soviet Mi-14 Haze helicopter and a Soviet Kashin class guided missile destroyer (583) shadow salvage operations for downed Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (KAL-007). The commercial jet was shot down by Soviet aircraft over Sakhalin Island on August 30, 1983 in the Sea of Japan. All 269 passengers and crewmen were killed

Passengers depart from a C-141B Starlifter aircraft during the 30th anniversary of Operation DEEP FREEZE

Frau Meisterin. Libretto. German. Performance: Wien

Shortly after landing, colorful balloons delight the assembled crowd with a night glow as pilots fire the burners on the ground at the National Balloon Classic, a hot air balloon exhibition in Indianola, Iowa, a town near the state capital of Des Moines

Crewmen and representative from Eastport International prepare to deploy the unmanned submersible Deep Drone from the fleet tug USNS NARRAGANSETT (T-ATF 167) as the salvage ship USS CONSERVER (ARS 39) patrols nearby during salvage operations for downed Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (KAL-007). The commercial jet was shot down by Soviet aircraft over Sakhalin Island on August 30, 1983 in the Sea of Japan. All 269 passengers and crewmen were killed

Vista del globo areostatico qe. se hecho ante Ss. Ms. y su Rl. familia el dia 8 de enero de 1793 en el qual fue Dn. Vicente Lunardi y cayó â las 2 de la tarde ...

Globos Exposición del Centenario Argentina

A green and white hot air balloon flying in the sky. Hot air balloon balloon sky.

[Proposed design for balloon utilizing sails for propulsion, Paris, 1783]

The War balloon at General M'Dowell's head-quarters preparing for a reconnoissance / sketched by Ed. Pietsch.

A Soviet Mi-14 Haze helicopter shadows salvage operations for downed Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (KAL-007). The commercial jet was shot down by Soviet aircraft over Sakhalin Island on August 30, 1983 in the Sea of Japan. All 269 passengers and crewmen were killed

Luftballongen tömmes i Lerum, utanför Göteborg. Luftseglaren Cetti och sittande på korgen Oscar Halldin.Bilden troligen tagen med självutlösare.

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