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                                 Image number: RS.10233
                             
                         
                         
                     
                 
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            Filling a balloon with hydrogen gas
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                                1783
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                Bertault (French) , Printmaker
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                Library reference
                            
                            
                                38890
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                Dimensions
                            
                            
                                height (print): 199mm
width (print): 120mm
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            width (print): 120mm
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                                Description
                            
                            
                                Scene showing the inflation of a balloon by hydrogen gas piped from a barrel. The gas was produced by the reaction of sulphuric acid and iron. A preliminary balloon of this type was flown at the Champ de Mars in Paris, France on the 27 August 1783 an event witnessed by Benjamin Franklin.  
Plate 3 from the book Description des expériences de la machine aérostatiques de MM.de Montgolfier, by Faujas de Saint-Fond (Paris, 1783). Inscribed below : “Bertault sculp.“
This hydrogen balloon was designed by Jacques Alexandre César Charles (1746-1823) and the Robert Brothers, Anne-Jean Robert (1758–1820) and Nicolas-Louis Robert (1760–1820).
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            Plate 3 from the book Description des expériences de la machine aérostatiques de MM.de Montgolfier, by Faujas de Saint-Fond (Paris, 1783). Inscribed below : “Bertault sculp.“
This hydrogen balloon was designed by Jacques Alexandre César Charles (1746-1823) and the Robert Brothers, Anne-Jean Robert (1758–1820) and Nicolas-Louis Robert (1760–1820).
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