A hand-coloured decorative slide showing an engraving of 'Lana's Aeronautic Machine' , a small flying boat held aloft by four small gas balloons, designed by Francesco Lana de Terzi in 1670

Date:: 1882 - 1892

Reference:: CVS01/01/009

Type:: Photograph (Lantern Slide)

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Description

This slide was used in Cecil Victor Shadbolt's lecture 'Balloons and Ballooning, Upward and Onwards'

Content

This is part of the Series: CVS01/01 Series of lantern slides; within the Collection: CVS01 Cecil Victor Shadbolt Collection

Rights

Source: Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Creator of Archive: Shadbolt, Cecil Victor