• Print, Etching on Paper, Uncolored, LANA'S AERONAUTIC MACHINE
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    Uncolored etching of the aircraft suggested by Franceso Lana de Terzi (1631-1687), in Prodromo (1670). The four metal globes are evacuated so as to make the craft buoyant. The craft was never constructed and was beyond the technology of the period.

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Vanessa Nagengast

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National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

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