Early European balloon,parachute,aircraft designs

Early European balloon, parachute, and aircraft designs
Title: Early European balloon, parachute, and aircraft designs
Date Created/Published: 1784-1891, bulk 1852-1870.
Summary: European prints show designs, patents, and technical illustrations for hot-air and gas balloons, airships, and heavier-than-air vehicles, many incorporating concepts for navigation and motor driven flight. Also, parachute designs; diagrams showing calculations for balloon aerodynamics, altitude and distance.
Notes:
Digitized images of these items display with associated descrpitions in the Prints & Photographs Division Online Catalog, http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html
LOT title devised by Library staff.
Includes works by various European artists, designers, and printmakers.
Formats include lithographs and etchings with some engravings.
Print captions in French, English, and German.
Transfer; Aeronautics Division; ca. 1954.
Forms part of the Tissandier collection.
Subjects:
Aeronautics--Europe--1780-1900.
Balloons (Aircraft)--European--1780-1900.
Airships--European--1780-1900.
Ornithopters--1780-1900.
Parachutes--1780-1900.
Balloon ascensions--Europe--1780-1900.
Design drawings--1780-1900.
Diagrams--1780-1900.
Engravings--1780-1900.
Etchings--1780-1900.
Lithographs--1780-1900.
Technical illustrations--1780-1900.
Bookmark /2003653061/
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