EditorialThe inside of the balloon inflated with air, Albert Tissandier, Gaston Tissandier and Gabriel Mangin inside the hot air balloon Union, Signed: A. Marie; J. Gauchard, Fig. 102, p. 491, Marie, Adrien (del.); Gauchard, Jean (sc.), 1870, James Glaisher; Ca...
EditorialSmall electric dirigible aerostat of M. Gaston Tissandier, built in 1881, and functioning inflated with pure hydrogen, Hydrogen airship equipped with an electric motor in the workshop of Gaston Tissandier 1881, Fig. 62, p. 240, 1887, Gaston Tissandier:...
EditorialJulius Caesar holds a manuscript above the surface of water J. Caesar Alexandriae ad navem proximam nando evadens (title on object), Above the performance a vellum with the representation of two pairs of inflated bags. Print marked lower right: T.I. P....
EditorialFools, or Jesters. The Costume of the original inhabitants of the Bri. R. Havell: London, 1815. Fools or jesters, Anno 1272. In his hands he holds a a stick to which an inflated bladder is fastened, in the other a paper or folded parchment. Image take...
Editorial'The inflated frog'. Satirical picture of a man, possibly a soldier, depictated as a frog, . Funny folks. : A weekly budget of funny pictures, notes, jokes and stories. London, 1889. Source: Funny folks. 4 May 1889 page 137.
EditorialThe Long-Winded Speech, or the oratorical organ harmonized with sublime and beautiful inflation. 1788. In this caricature, the politician and dramatist Richard Brinsley Sheridan presents his charges against Hastings to the House of Lords. Sheridan is d...
EditorialLooking glass, 1685?1705, Probably made in England, British, probably, Walnut veneer, red pine, and glass, 35 1/4 x 24 in. (89.5 x 61 cm), Furniture, Looking glasses were among the most prized furniture imports from England, and their prices remained i...
EditorialModel of a statue dedicated to French balloonists, Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier, featuring a double profile portrait from a gold medal designed by Houdon and an inflated balloon by H. Thiriat, sc.
EditorialBuccinum humphreysianum (Inflated buccinum, Buccinum inflatum). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's "The Naturalist's Miscellany," London, 1810.
EditorialModel of a statue dedicated to French balloonists, Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier, featuring a double profile portrait from a gold medal designed by Houdon and an inflated balloon by H. Thiriat, sc.