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    Engraving on paper depicting first aerial voyage in a hydrogen gas balloon. Large crowd watches two balloonist wave flags forty feet above them. Professor Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles designed the first hydrogen balloon. On Dec. 1, 1783, Professor Charles and M.N. Robert became the first persons to fly a gas balloon.

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Digitized by Julie Weinstein

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02/09/2021

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Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

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Art; Aviation

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