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Domitor / H. Franco̧is. - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Congress

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Print shows Taillepied de La Garenne's proposed system of aerial navigation consisting of a balloon with a double parachute on a single axis capable of transporting six persons; parachutes open on an axis extended on both sides of the balloon. (Source: A.G. Renstrom, LC staff, 1981-82).

Hot Air Baloons and Gas Baloons

Retro-Futurism​ and Vintage [Science] Fiction Images Collection Retrofuturism is a movement in the creative arts showing the influence of depictions of the future produced in an earlier era. If futurism is sometimes called a "science" bent on anticipating what will come, retrofuturism is the remembering of that anticipation.

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