13 Items
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Amazing flying machines CVS01_01_012Amazing flying machines. Hand-coloured engraving of the Minerva balloon, designed by Etienne-Gaspard Robert in 1804. The original slide is damaged but this image has been repaired
Amazing flying machines CVS01_01_017Amazing flying machines. A hand-coloured engraving of a flying machine designed by Gabrielle de la Londelle, which appeared in his book aAviation, ou Navigation Aeriennea in 1863
Amazing flying machines CVS01_01_002Amazing flying machines. A hand-coloured engraving of the mythological Persian King Kai Kawus, seated on a throne being pulled through the air by four eagles
Amazing flying machines CVS01_01_009Amazing flying machines.A hand-coloured engraving of Lanas Aeronautic Machine, a small flying boat held aloft by four small gas balloons, designed by Francesco Lana de Terzi in 1670
Amazing flying machines CVS01_01_007Amazing flying machines. A hand-coloured engraving of a man flying using Besniers Flying Machine of 1678. From the Cecil Victor Shadbolt collection of lantern slides dating from 1882-1892
Amazing flying machines CVS01_01_006Amazing flying machines. A hand-coloured illustration from Cyrano de Bergeracas aComical History of the States and Empires of the Moona, dating from 1657
Amazing flying machines CVS01_01_005Amazing flying machines. A hand-coloured illustration from Francis Godwinas aThe Man in the Moonea, first published (posthumously) in 1638, in which a Spanish nobleman, Domingo Gonsales
Amazing flying machines CVS01_01_004Amazing flying machines. A hand-coloured engraving of The Flying Man ; a figure wearing a large pair of wings with an umbrella above his head, stepping from a cliff
Amazing flying machines CVS01_01_018Amazing flying machines. A hand-coloured engraving of a number of early designs for a flying machines, in flight above the coast
Amazing flying machines CVS01_01_013Amazing flying machines. A hand-coloured engraving of an early frameless parachute, designed by Andre-Jacques Garnerin in 1797
Amazing flying machines CVS01_01_016Amazing flying machines. A hand-coloured engraving of four early designs for flying machines, including one parachute-type machine and others with paddles, in flight above a coastal scene
Amazing flying machines CVS01_01_008Amazing flying machines. Hand-coloured engraving of Laurent de Guzmans Flying Balloon from 1709. From the Cecil Victor Shadbolt collection of lantern slides dating from 1882-1892
Amazing flying machines CVS01_01_003Amazing flying machines. Hand-coloured engraving of a man in a top hat and waistcoat holding a large pair of wings and flying above two alarmed figures, one of whom is holding a pitchfork
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