A hand-coloured decorative slide showing an engraving of two men shooting at Jean-Pierre Blanchard's 'Vaisseau Volant' as it passes over France in 1784
- Date:
- 1882 - 1892
- Reference:
- CVS01/01/011
- Type:
- Photograph (Lantern Slide)
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In 1785, Blanchard and American physician John Jeffries became the first balloonists to cross the English Channel. This slide was used in Cecil Victor Shadbolt's lecture 'Balloons and Ballooning, Upward and Onwards'
This is part of the Series: CVS01/01 Series of lantern slides; within the Collection: CVS01 Cecil Victor Shadbolt Collection
Source: Historic England Archive
Creator of Archive: Shadbolt, Cecil Victor
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