Balloon Collection (page 12)

Balloon Section Royal Engineers c 1897
Balloon Section, Royal Engineers. circa 1897

Air Balloon cartoon 4 May 1784
Air Balloon cartoon. 4 May 1784

A Representation of M Blanchards Balloon and Apparatus
A Representation of M. Blanchards Balloon and Apparatus. 14 September 1784

Lady Shelleys balloon party Avington Park near Winchester
Lady Shelleys balloon party. Avington Park, near Winchester, 1906. Date: 1906

The ascent of the Thrasher Cove Common
The ascent of the Thrasher, Cove Common, 28 May 1907. Date: 1907

Lunardis new balloon 1785
Lunardis new balloon. 1785. [C.F.A. Pierce Collection]. Bottom half

Ascent from the Tuilleries Garden of Charles and Robert
Ascent from the Thuilleries Garden of Charles and Robert 1 December 1783. [Cuthbert-Hodgson Collection]

A professor explaining to an audience the nature of a balloo
A professor filling and explaining to an audience the nature of a balloon

The king and queen reviewing a balloon - Windsor
The king and queen reviewing a balloon in the garden of Windsor Castle

The Aerostatic Stage Balloon (1783) [C.F.A. Pierce Collection]

General Alarm of the Inhabitants of Gonese, occasioned the Fall of the Air Balloon on M. Montgolfier (1783) [C.F.A. Pierce Collection]

Grand Aerostatic Balloon - Blanchard
Grand Aerostatic Balloon in which M. Blanchard ascended from the Royal Military Academy at Little Chelsea, 16 October 1784. [C.F.A. Pierce Collection]

Watercolour of Charles Greens Royal Vauxhall (later known as the Nassau) balloon over the Medway, 7 November 1836. After a flight of some 480 miles lasting 18 hours Green - accompanied by Robert

The city of Paris during the same ascent (Charles & Robert)
Ascent from the Thuilleries Garden of Charles and Robert 1 December 1783. [Cuthbert-Hodgson Collection] - Another view over the city of Paris during the same ascent

Charles Greens 100th ascent
Watercolour of Charles Greens 100th ascent from the Mermaid Tavern Hackney, 14 May 1832. [Cuthbert-Hodgson Collection]

James Sadlers ascent
Hand-coloured etching and aquatint of James Sadlers ascent from Merton Fields, Oxford, 7 July 1810 [Cuthbert-Hodgson Collection]

William Elmes Prime Bang Up at Hackney [Caricature of Sadlers Eighteenth Ascent form the gardens of the Mermaid Tavern, Hackney. 12 August, 1811]. [Cuthbert-Hodgson Collection]

Prospectus for Grand Air-Balloon or New Aerostatic Machine. [Cuthbert-Hodgson Collection]

Lunardis Grand Air Balloon. Engraved for the Aerostatic Spy, 1 April 1785

The Descent of the Air Balloon
Plate showing The Descent of the Air Balloon

The Ascent of the Aerial Balloon
Plate showing The Ascent of the Aerial Balloon

Representation of Mr Blanchards Balloon
Plate showing A Representation of Mr Blanchards Balloon Launchd from Mt Lochees Military Academy Little Chelfea Saturday 16 October 1784

Exact Representation of Mr Lunardis Balloon
Plate showing An Exact Representation of Mr Lunardis Balloon travelling with himself. From the 5 Voyages in Scotland, 1786

Plate of Mr James Deekers ascent at Norwich
Plate of Mr James Deekers ascent, Norwich, 1785

Count Zambeccaris Balloon
Plate showing Count Zambeccaris Balloon. Which was to have taken up himfelf, Rear Admiral Sir Edward Knt. and Mifs Grice from Tottenham Court Road

The Perilous Situation of Major Money
Plate showing The Perilous Situation of Major Money. When he fell into the sea with his balloon on th 23 July 1785 off the coast of Yarmouth; was providentially discovered

The Balloon Kettle as it stood in St George
Plate showing The Balloon Kettle, as it stood in St Georges Fields about 1790

A View of the Royal Circus from St Georges
Plate showing A View of the Royal Circus from St Georges Fields at the time of the Ascension of Arnolds Balloon. 1785

Schwarzs aluminium balloon

Tytlers balloon

Lunardis balloon exhibited at the Pantheon in 1784

de Roziers balloon on fire

Lt-Col J L B Templer Superintendent R E Balloon Factory
Lt-Col J.L.B. Templer, Superintendent R.E. Balloon Factory, Aldershot

Codys British Army Aeroplane No 1 warming up at the Balloon Factory, Farnborough. 1908. Date: 1908

George Cayleys design for a double balloon to be propelled by inclining a plane between the two envelopes. 4 March 1837

Balloon ready for lift-off

Balloon ascending

Balloon torn apart

Men in a balloon basket

Polar bear on the North Pole spying on a balloon

Snapshot of a balloon convoy crossing a road in South Africa, taken by W. Maxwell of the Standard. Boer War

Lord Robertss Army advancing towards Johannesburg: 84th Battery and Balloon Corps. Boer War

Aerial View - South Kensington
When the balloon was almost over the Albert Memorial in Kensington Gardens this photograph was taken in the southern direction

Aerial view of Battersea
This photograph was taken just after the ascent and the oval grass patch to the right of the three gasometers shows the mat from which the balloon rose

Aerial view from balloon over Hyde Park, London
This photograph was taken when the balloon was situated over Hyde Park and is the view observed when looking in the direction of south east

Aerial view of Westminster from a balloon
When this and other photographs of this region of London were taken the air currents were so tricky that ones chief attention had to be taken in assisting in the manipulation of the balloon

A military observation balloon at Ladysmith - Boer War
A military observation balloon at Ladysmith during the Boer War

Car of modern spherical balloon

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