Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10226
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‘Flying machine designed by M. de la Landelle’
Date
1873
Creator
William Ballingall (British) , Engraver
Object type
Library reference
48597
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 97mm
width (print): 100mm
width (print): 100mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Imaginary view of a steam-powered orthoptere (helicopter) design by the French author Guillaume Joseph Gabriel de la Landelle (1812-1886). Clockwork and other models of prototype helicopters were made by several individuals in France during the 1860s including by de la Landelle and Gustave de Ponton d'Amécourt (1825-1888). These inventions are widely assumed to have inspired Jules Verne’s 1886 novel Robur le conquérant (Robur the Conqueror or The Clipper of the Clouds)
Figure 112 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 112 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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