Palatre des Rosiers fit construire un ballon à gaz auquel il eut la déplorable ideé d'ajouter un cylindre servant de Montgolfiére, c'etait placer le feu sous un baril de poudre. Ce ballon destine a traverser la Manche prit feu et les deux aeronautes furent brises sur la terre; MM. Alban et Vallet, directeurs de la fabrique de Javel font plusieurs essais de direction qui ont quelques succés, mais par un temps calme seulement.; Testubrissy s'eléve à Paris, maltraité par les paysans inhospitaliers de Montmorency qui brisentses rames, il remonte à 1,400 m. reste pendant 3 h. au milieu de la foundre.; Premre. expérience du Parachûte par Blanchard.; On avait etabli à Meudon une école d'Aérostiers militres.
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Object Details
Type
ART-Prints, Original
Medium
Print, Aquatint on Paper, Colored
Physical Description
Colored aquatint of four balloons and one parachute in flight. Each has its own date and caption describing the flight in French.
1. June 16, 1785: Rozier's balloon he built to cross the English Channel.
2. From August 25 to September 7, 1785: Alban et Vallet, chemists who directed a factory producing bleach, made several attempts to develop balloons with some success in good weather. Some accounts credit them with the development of a large balloon for the Count d ‘Artois.
3. Pierre Testu-Brissy made his first night ascent on June 17, 1785.
4. J.P. Blanchard made his first parachute jump from the Chalais Meudon on 1787
5. Military balloon school established at Meudon on June 26, 1794.
Dimensions
Mat: 25.4 × 30.5cm (10 × 12 in.)
Unmatted: 8.6 × 16.2cm (3 3/8 × 6 3/8 in.) Inventory Number
A20140392005
Credit Line
Gift of the Norfolk Charitable Trust
Data Source
National Air and Space Museum
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