Balloons and parachutes
Full front page from The Penny Dispatch, giving five images of balloons and parachutes. Top left: the Royal Nassau Balloon, first ascent, 1836; top right: Cocking's parachute; lower left: the Nassau Balloon sailing for the continent; lower middle: the Nassau Balloon with Cocking's parachute during the ascent; lower right: Mr Green's balloon, with a parachute, on Garnerin's principle
Picture No
10610252
Media ID
48035932
Size
3844px x 5000px
(4.1MB)
Credit
©The Royal Aeronautical Society (National Aerospace Library)/Mary Evans
Source
The Penny Dispatch, front page, 17 July 1841
Date
1830s
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