A hand-coloured decorative slide showing an engraving of a balloon ascending above a large crowd. There is a large, turreted building in the background

Date:: 1882 - 1892

Reference:: CVS01/01/015

Type:: Photograph (Lantern Slide)

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Description

This engraving may depict the first manned hydrogen balloon flight by Jacques Charles and Nicolas-Louis Robert, who lanuched from the Tulleries, Paris on 1st December 1783. 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