Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10225
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‘Mr Henson’s flying machine’
Date
1873
Creator
William Ballingall (British) , Engraver
Object type
Library reference
48597
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 45mm
width (print): 100mm
width (print): 100mm
Subject
Content object
Description
View of the Ariel steam carriage, a system of flight patented in 1843 by the engineer and inventor William Samuel Henson (1812-1888). Although models of this aircraft design were made, the proposed full scale flying machine was not.
Figure 109 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.
Figure 109 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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