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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(s):
- 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.
Keywords: 1880s, 19th century, airship, black & white, cutaway, flying, Furne
