Wednesday

Balloooooon plates ;O)

Mlle Sophie Blanchard 1819 plate

Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau 1784 plate

Pierre Testu-Brissy 1787 plate

Udvar-Hazy Center, Dulles International Airport,
Chantilly, Virginia, USA. French plate from the 1800s
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2 comments:

Joseph Zigmond said...

Hi Aputsiaq,

Would you be able to tell me who has the rights to the image of the first plate (Sophie Blanchard falling to her death)? I work for a publishers in the UK and we'd like to include the image in a book about the history of ballooning.
Please get back to me!
Beautiful blog by the way,
joe

Aputsiaq said...

Dear Joseph Zigmond! I'm so sorry - I simply don't know. I hope you find the info you're looking for!!