Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10224
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‘The Vauxhall balloon of Mr. Green’
Date
1873
Creator
William Ballingall (British) , Engraver
Object type
Library reference
48597
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 183mm
width (print): 118mm
width (print): 118mm
Subject
Content object
Description
View of the Royal Vauxhall, later renamed Royal Nassau flown by the pioneering balloonist Charles Green (1785-1870). The balloon was inflated using coal gas and launched from sites that included Vauxhall Gardens in London.
Plate from Animal locomotion or walking, swimming and, and flying, with a dissertation on aeronautics, by James Bell Pettigrew (Henry S.King & Co., London, 1873).
James Bell Pettigrew (1832-1908) comparative anatomist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1868.
Plate from Animal locomotion or walking, swimming and, and flying, with a dissertation on aeronautics, by James Bell Pettigrew (Henry S.King & Co., London, 1873).
James Bell Pettigrew (1832-1908) comparative anatomist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1868.
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