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Collecting cards with pictures of events in ballooning and parachuting history
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Le Commandant Coutelle au siège de Mayence (1795) N°. 1
Les utopies de la navigation aérienne au siècle dernier N°. 2
Sébastien Lenormand fait la 1re expérience du parachute, Montpellier (1783) N°. 3
Descente de Jacques Garnerin en parachute (1797) N°. 4
Gay-Lussac et Biot à 4 000 mètres de Hauteur (1804) N°. 5
N°. 6 Le Ballon du couronnement de Napoléon (1804) N°. 7 Mort de Mme. Blanchard (1819) N°. 8 Zambeccari et ses deux compagnons dans L'Adriatique (1804) N°. 9 Mort de Harris (1824) N°. 10 Arban est recueilli par des pécheurs Italiens (1846)
Medium: 10 prints (ephemera) (1 sheet) : chromolithograph. Created/published: Paris : Romanet & cie., imp. edit., [between 1890 and 1900] Notes: sheet of 10 uncut cards, individually captioned and numbered; issued as "Collection 476," "2e série."; French captions on each card; Tissandier collection. Exhibited: "The Dream of Flight" : American Treasures of the Library of Congress, 2003-04.
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Havacılık tarihi: sağ üst köşesinden saatin ters yönünde: Mainz Kuşatması sırasında Komutan Coutelle (1795), Geçen yüzyılın hava seyrüsefer ütopyaları, Sébastien Lenormand'ın ilk paraşüt deneyimi, Montpellier (1783), Jacques Garnerin'ın paraşütle inm