Ballooning Collection (page 3)

Founders of the Royal Aero Club
The founders of the Royal Aero Club; from left to right are - Mrs Nicholls, the C. S. Rolls and Mr Hedges Butler. Mrs Nicholl was the first woman to be a member of the club

Partial Ascent of the New Steam Captive Balloon
Poster advertising the Partial Ascent of the New Steam Captive Balloon, Ashburnham Park, Kings Road, Chelsea, September 7th 1868 Date: 1868

Ascension de Madame Garnerin
Ascent of Madame Garnerin 28th March 1802. Date: 1802

Mrs. Sage and Mr. Biggin, late 18th century Aviators (ballon ascents). Date: circa 1785

Mr. Charles Greens Coronation Balloon

Mr. Robert Cocking - Aviator

The balloon mania which swept across Europe
A pair of late 18th century French lithographs which reflect the balloon mania which swept across Europe at the time of the first balloon ascents

Mrs. Letitia Sage, first Englishwoman to ascend in a balloon
The Parachute or a Sage Ladys Second Experiment. A rather saucy 18th century cartoon by Thomas Rowlandson which depicts Mrs. Letitia Sage, the first Englishwoman to ascend in a balloon. Date: 1785

Balloon designs by Charles & Robert and Montgolfier
Balloon designs by Charles and Robert (1, 5) and the Montgolfier Brothers (2, 3, 4). No. 3 ascended from Versailles. No. 4 ascended from the Chateau de la Muette. No

Air balloon of Charles and Robert, Paris
The air balloon of Charles and Robert, exhibited in Paris, from where they ascended from the Tuileries Gardens. 1 December 1783

Balloon descent at Gonesse, France
The first trial hydrogen balloon which ascended from the Champ de Mars, and descended in the village of Gonesse, north east of Paris

Bodies removed from a crashed balloon
The bodies of a man and a woman being removed from a crashed balloon in a deer park. 1824

Royal Vauxhall Balloon ascent
Charles Green and fellow-passengers in the Royal Vauxhall Balloon, making its third ascent on 27 September 1836

Satirical cartoon, The March of Intellect, showing a street scene with balloons in the sky above. 1828

Early Ballooning - Inflating a balloon. early 19th century

Ballooning - A Cruise in the Clouds
Three men ballooning - A Cruise in the Clouds. One man checks an altimeter, another empties sand to lighten the balloon and gain height, and a third releases a pigeon. circa 1900

Scrapbook cover design - Ballooning. circa 1860s

Victorian Scrapbook Cover - Ballooning. 19th century

Cartoon, The Great Balloon, by James Gillray. A satirical comment on the subject of Lord Grenvilles installation as Chancellor of Oxford University

Glaisher and Coxwell scientific balloon ascent, 1862
Balloon ascent by James Glaisher and Henry Coxwell in 1862 to make scientific meteorological observations. Date: 1862

Glaisher and Coxwell balloon ascent 1862
Balloon ascent by James Glaisher and Henry Coxwell in June 1862 to conduct meteorological observations. Here the balloon is above the clouds. Date: 1862

BLANCHARD, Jean-Pierre (1753 - 1809). French inventor, most remembered as a pioneer in aviation and ballooning. Blanchard in front of the Militar School. 02/03/1784. Engraving. FRANCE

The Zeppalloon by William Heath Robinson, WW1 cartoon
An ingenious adjustment. Whereby a captive balloon can, at a moments notice, be converted so as to appear like a Zeppelin

Training Royal Flying Corps officers in a balloon, WW1
A school in the sky over London town - how officers are trained in the Royal Flying Corps. Balloons flying over the capital

Locomotive balloon in Vauxhall Gardens
The locomotive balloon designed by a Mr Bell, a forerunner of the 20th century Zeppelin, which made several ascents at the famous Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens in the 1850s

Greens Ascent in his Nassau Balloon
Poster advertising Charles Greens ascent in his Nassau Balloon on October 6th 1840 from the grounds of the Commercial Gas Company, Ben Jonsons Fields, Stepney Date: 1840

Balloon ascent from the Tuilieries Gardens, Paris
Second balloon ascent, made from the Tuileries Gardens by Charles and Robert, watched by a crowd of spectators. Date: 1 December 1783

Ornate balloon ascending, Paris
A large, ornate Montgolfier balloon ascending over Paris, with two passengers (probably Andre Giroud de Villette and Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier). With people on the launch site below

Balloon ascent from St Cloud, Paris
Second balloon ascent by the Robert brothers and two others from the Parc de St Cloud, Paris. They descended not far away, in the Parc de Meudon, near the Etang de la Garenne. Date: 15 July 1784

Montgolfier balloon, built in the garden of Jean-Baptiste Reveillon, Rue de Montreuil, Faubourg St Antoine, Paris, funded by the Academie Royale des Sciences. Depicted here being filled by gas

Balloon being filled with gas
Balloon in a yard, being filled with gas from a barrel in preparation for flight. Date: late 18th century

Montgolfier balloon in flight over Lyons, France
Third balloon ascent in Lyons, France, under the direction of Joseph de Montgolfier, showing the balloon known as Le Flesselle in flight above the city. Date: 19 January 1784

Imaginary view of a flying machine
Imaginary front view of a Vaisseau Volant (flying machine), looking like a Faberge egg with green wings. Date: 1780s

Ascent of M. Delemarne in L Esperance
Poster advertising the ascent of M. Delemarne The Aerial Vessel Sailing Balloon! " L Esperance", Cremorne Gardens, August 7th 1865 Date: 1865

Elisa Garnerin - Aviator
Elisa Garnerin (1791-1853). Garnerin learned to fly balloons at age 15 and made 39 professional parachute descents from 1815 to 1836 in Italy, Spain, Russia, Germany and France. Date: circa 1785

Mr. Martyns Design for an Aerostatic Globe, 1783 - The earliest English design for a Navigable Balloon. Date: 1783

The Gondola of Auguste Piccard
The Gondola of Prof. Auguste Piccard and Monsieur Cosyns used for the second ascent into the stratosphere on August 18th, 1932. The maximum height reached was 16, 940 metres (10 1/2 miles)! Date: 1932

Piccard ascent failure September 1930
Piccard ascent failure, September 1930. Date: 1930

Piccard ready for the ascent 1931-1932
Piccard ready for the ascent, 1931-1932. Date: 1931

Piccards balloon ready for its first ascent

No2 Ballooning Company Royal Engineers 26 August 1907
No2 Ballooning Company, Royal Engineers. 26 August 1907. Date: 1907

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

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

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]

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

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