Introductory material
Reading edition
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01. Lana’s Flying Machine 02. Laurent de Guzman’s Balloon 03. The Flying Man 04. Inflating Balloon with Hydrogen 05. The Parachute 06. Garnerin’s Descent in a Parachute 07. The Brothers Montgolfier 08. Charles’s Balloon on its way to the Champ de Mars 09. The Ascent of Charles’s Balloon from the Champ de Mars 10. The Destruction of Charles’s Balloon 11. Ascent of the 19th September, 1783, at Versailles 12. Balloon of the Marquis D’Arlandes 13. The Balloon of D’Arlandes crossing Paris 14. The First Aerial Voyage 15. Monsieur Charles and the Duke of Chartres 16. Bagnolet’s Balloon 17. Le Flesselles 18. Blanchard’s Balloon 19. Blanchard’s Ascent, (Caricature) 20. Blanchard’s Descent 21. Ascent from Dijon, 1784 22. Ascent of the Duke of Chartres 23. The “Minerva" 24. The First Attempt to Ascend in England 25. Blanchard 26. Dr. Jeffries 27. Coronation fete at Paris 28. The Wreck of the “Geant" 29. Pilatre des Roziers 30. Employment of a Balloon at the Battle of Fleurus