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Object Details
Date
November 1, 1804
Type
ART-Prints, Original
Medium
Print, Etching on Paper, Uncolored
Artist
Wilson Lowry Physical Description
Uncolored etching of eight diagrams of parts of a balloon gore and other pieces of equipment for demonstrating hydrogen generation. The diagrams are numbered 1 through 4, then 10 through 12, suggesting another page had more associated diagrams.
'Published as the Act directs, Novr. 1st 1804, by Longman Hurst, Recs & Orme, Paternoster Row. Engraved by Wilson Lowry.'
Dimensions
Mat: 35.6 × 27.9cm (14 × 11 in.)
Unmatted: 27.3 × 22.5cm (10 3/4 × 8 7/8 in.) Inventory Number
A20140724000
Credit Line
Gift of the Norfolk Charitable Trust
Data Source
National Air and Space Museum
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