A balloonist leaping to his death in order to save his love.
Sophie Blanchard's fatal ballooning accident.
The accidental crashing of Mrs Graham's balloon near Piccadilly.
ZENITH ACCIDENT, 1875.
Vincenzo Lunardi making his first attempt at a balloon ascent.
A balloon falling into the sea.
A balloon crashing into a tree.
Nadar's balloon 'Le Geant'.
Thomas Harris, inventive London scientist and lieutenant and pioneering English balloonist who fell to his death from a hot air balloon, 25 May 1824
A French aeronaut falling to his death from a balloon over Beuzeville, France
Soldier of the French ballooning corps, accidentally carried up on a captive army balloon, falling to his death when he could no longer hold on
Two types of hot-air balloons.
The ballooning accident of General John Money.
A balloon house in Amsterdam.
Aviation and ballooning during the 19th Century.
Design for a German Air-Balloon.
Henry Badgley's air-ship.
The Duruof being rescued from the North Sea.
The death of Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier in 1785 when his hot air balloon crashed near Wimereux, Pas-de-Calais, France during an attempt to fly across the English Channel
MONTGOLFIER BALLOON, 1864.
LEON GAMBETTA (1838-1882).
BALLOONING, 1884.
COXWELL'S BALLOON, 1864.
GREEN'S BALLOON, 1857.
Light mirage, 19th Century illustration
Diagram depicting a bird-shaped flying machine.
Francois Laurent d'Arlandes' balloon crossing Paris.
Aviation and ballooning during the 20th Century.
The 'Comte d'Artois'.
Death of the French aviators Godard and Panis when their balloon was struck by lightning over Chicago
A balloon in danger at sea
The aftermath of Gaston Tissandier's fatal balloon accident.
U.S. ARMY BALLOON, 1907.
LOUIS PAULHAN (1883-1963).
Joseph-Michel Montgolfier.
Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier.
First fatal ballooning accident, 15 June 1785
First fatal ballooning accident, 1785
FRANCE: BALLOONING, 1848.
Paris firemen on the rooftops trying to capture a balloon with its ropes entangled round chimney pots and to rescue the aviator in the basket
BALLOON ACCIDENT.
The fatal ballooning accident of Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier.
Lennox's balloon 'Aigle'.
Ernest Petin's flying machine.
Scott's balloon.
Laurent de Guzman's balloon.
Emile Gire's balloon.
The inflating of the balloon 'Hirondelle'.
The Smither's navigable balloon.
Bagnolet's balloon.
Guilaume's navigable balloon.
The balloon 'Geant' among the clouds.
The balloon 'Geant' landing and overturning.
A French air-ship.
De Groof's flying machine.
The fatal parachute descent of Robert Cocking.
Ascent before the fatal parachute descent of Robert Cocking.
Le Flesselle Balloon
Horrified spectators watching two aircrafts collide during an air-show.
Tissandier landing his balloon.
Balloons taking part in the celebrations for Napoleon's coronation.
Tissandier landing his balloon 'Neptune'.
A hot air balloon.
Gaston Tissandier taking photographs from his hot-air balloon.
WISE'S 'ATLANTIC' BALLOON.
The 'Nassau' balloon being used to hold up Westminster Bridge.
The 'Nassau' balloon about to ascend from Vauxhall Gardens.
Henry Tracey Coxwell's design for balloons to be used for Artic exploration.
The construction of balloons in the Gare d'Orleans to carry information out of Paris during the Prussian siege.
A hot-air balloon being released to celebrate San Giuseppe Day in Rome.
A system of vanes for attaching to balloons so that ascents and descents could be made without discarding ballast or releasing gas.
Tissandier crashing his balloon.
Locals helping Tissandier to shake snow off his balloon.
Terzuolo's navigable balloon.
Yves Guyot's plan for an ovoid balloon fitted with a sail.
Carra's balloon fitted with paddle wheels as a means of propulsion.
De Masse's balloon.
A balloon fitted with paddles.
Testu-Briss's balloon.
Constantin Danilewsky's balloon.
The varnishing of a balloon.
Professor Charles' balloon.
The Duke of Chartres making a balloon ascent.
AERIAL VOYAGE, 1870.
Hot Air Balloon
Aerial view of hot air balloons
'ERIN-GO-BRAGH' BALLOON.
MONTGOLFIER BALLOON.
MONTGOLFIER BALOON, 1783.
HOT AIR BALLOON, 1783.
MONTGOLFIER BALLOON, 1783.
BALLOON FLIGHT, 1783.
Hot air balloon completing inflation
A hot air balloon labelled "Suffrage Universel" with wings floating above the Pyrenees and headed toward a sign labelled "Espagne".
Balloon Ascent, Van Houten Cocoa, Trade Card, circa 1895
TRANSPORTATION CARTOON.
Ernest Petin.
The Balloon
GERMANY: MILITARY DRILL.
A paying-out machinery and pulley of Giffard's 'Captive' hydrogen balloon.
James Sadler making a balloon ascent from fields near Merton College, Oxford.
A hot-air balloon fitted with a parachute.
Camille Vert's 'Flying Fish' balloon.
Dr. Woelfert's airship.
Ferdinand Lagleize's navigable balloon.
Alphonse Louis Poitevin.
The ascent of the Montgolfier Balloon.
The ascent of Eugene Godard's balloon 'Eagle'.
A balloon ascending from Barbizon.
James Glaisher's balloon over Westminster.
Fashion pieces which mimics balloons.
Michel Loup's artificial bird.
Green's balloon landing in the sea.
A close escape for Camille Flammarion.
The filling of a balloon.
The making of the 'Captive' balloon for the Cremorne Gardens, London.
Balloons used as lightning conductors.
Poitevin making a balloon ascent on a horse from the Champ de Mars.
The readying of the balloon 'Captive' for the Paris Exhibition.
Giffard's 'Captive' hydrogen balloon.
Medal depicting a panoramic view of Paris.
Giffard's method of anchoring a 'Captive' balloon.
Goutier-Grissy's method for propelling balloons.
Guile's plan for a balloon.
Uhlans tracking the course of a balloon during the Franco-Prussian War.
George Rudek's saddle balloon.
Samson's design for a navigable balloon.
One of nine balloons constructed by Green for the 1850 Franklin search expedition.
Nicolas Camille Flammarion ascending in a balloon.
A balloon flying over the sea.
The Calais Packet rescuing Colonel Brine and Mr. Joseph Simmons.
A hydrogen generating machine.
The Late Duke Of Albany, Views At Cannes: The Cercle Nautique, Where The Duke Met With The Accident The Day Before His Death
BALLOON TRAVELS, 1855.
NORTH POLE EXPEDITION.
Vincenzo making his first balloon ascent in England.
Wilfrid de Fonvielle telling school children about his adventures.
Jacques Charles with the help of the Robert Brothers filling his balloon with hydrogen.
Crowds gathered to watch the landing of the first successful hydrogen filled balloon.
Crowds gathered to watch the release of the first successful hydrogen filled balloon.
HENRI GIFFARD: BALLOON.
ALBERTO SANTOS-DUMONT
Nadar, French balloonist
FILM STILL: ROOKIES, 1927.
The Hindenburg disaster.
The 160 yard long aerial ship of French balloonist Ernest Petin, 1812-1879
JUMBO: DEATH, 1885.
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR, 1898.
AMMONITES & MOABITES.
RAILROAD ACCIDENT, 1857.
SOLDIER & DOG.
LONDON: BALLOON CRASH, 1851.
Montgolfier 'Le Flesselles' balloon, 1784
Le Tricolore.
Game board and instructions depicts a varied landscape and waterfront filled with numbered balloons.
Adventures de Baolet.