Altitude Experiments

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Gay-Lussac and Biot carrying out experiments in physics from a height of 4,000 meters.

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Artist

Name:
Mès, François-Constant
Dates:
??-1905
Country:
France

Illustration

Subject:
Science & Technology
Technique:
Wood Engraving
Engraver:
Deschamps, Émile
Format:
Portrait (taller)
Source:
Cushing-Whitney Medical Library, the Internet Archive

Book

Title:
Les aérostats
Author:
Figuier, Louis
Publisher:
Paris: Furne, Jouvet et Cie, 1887

Description:

Cutaway view of the gondola of the hot-air balloon in which Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and Jean-Baptiste Biot are sitting.

On August 24, 1804, Gay-Lussac goes on his first balloon ascent in the company of Biot to study terrestrial magnetism. He’ll go on a second one alone on September 16 for further investigations of the Earth’s atmosphere.

The caption reads in the original French: Gay-Lussac et Biot font des expériences de physique à 4 000 mètres de hauteur.

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