Utilite particuliere, du vaisseau volant Divers utilites, du

Utilite particuliere, du vaisseau volant Divers utilites, du vaisseau volant. Two songs illustrated with humorous pictures of men using flying machines for various purposes. The left panel shows a man fleeing from his creditors, while the four vignettes to the right depict a clergyman, astronomer, and two other men using the airship for noble pursuits. Satirizes Jean Pierre Blanchard's ca. 1782 design for a vaisseau volant, an airship that was never flown. Date 1782

Astronomer Balloonists Creditors Depict Divers Fleeing Flown Particuliere Purposes Pursuits Songs Tissandier Vaisseau Vignettes Volant

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