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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 Print, Lithograph on Paper Object Mr. La Mountain's Aerial Voyage-The Descent of the Balloon Object The Great Pictorial Romance of the Age Object The Vauxhall Balloon, Phil. 1850 Object Print, Engraving on Paper Object Balloon Ascension at Erie Object Program of the Canastota Fair Object The New Dynamite Balloon Object The Departure of a Post Balloon from Paris Object Petin's Air Propeller Object Descent near Easton, Pennsylvania Object Silk Handkerchief Object Selected filters: Place: United States of America