The Birth of the Balloon

Enormous crowds gathered in Paris to watch one balloon after another rise above the city rooftops, carrying the first human beings into the air in the closing months of 1783. Collection celebrating the invention and early history of the balloon.

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King George III and Queen Charlotte Viewing a Baloon Let Off In the Garden of Winsor Castle

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