Display Status:

This object is not on display at the National Air and Space Museum. It is either on loan or in storage.

Collection Item Summary:

Engraving of Edmond Charles Genêt's 1825 proposal for an airship powered by a fan arrangement driven by two horses on a circular treadmill. The airship was never built.

Collection Item Long Description:

Topic

  • Aeronautics - History
  • Airships

Data Source

National Air and Space Museum Archives

Restrictions & Rights

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photographer

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Date

1825

Repository Loc.

National Air and Space Museum, Archives Division, MRC 322, Washington, DC, 20560

Type

Photographs

Local number

NASM-00102261

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