EditorialHydrogen balloon ascent of Jean Augustin Barral and Jacques Alexandre Bixio from the Paris Observatory, 1850. Woodblock engraving by Mes after Deschamps from Louis Figuier's "Les Merveilles de la Science: Aerostats" (Marvels of Science: Air Balloons), ...
EditorialProfessor Louis Pasteur's instruments: a glass balloon with swan's neck for his experiments to disprove the idea of a " spontaneous creation" a glass bottle with the marrow of a rabbit infected with rabies, dried to increase the virus' virule...
EditorialPierre Testu-Brissy on a flight with a hot-air balloon, sitting on a horse, in Paris on October 16, 1798, Signed: H. R, R. E. Scherer ?, Fig. 52, p. 297.
EditorialMacy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon inflation on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The giant balloons came to life thanks to helium and hundreds of volunteer workers in the annual prelude to the holiday season. Here is The Boss Baby balloon.