History of Flight: Early Development of Balloons
Object Details
- Collection Creator
- Garber, Paul Edward, 1899-1992
- See more items in
- Paul E. Garber Collection
- Paul E. Garber Collection / Series 15: Audio Recordings
- Container
- Box 491, Reel 6
- Archival Repository
- National Air and Space Museum Archives
- Type
- Archival materials
- Audio
- Collection Citation
- Paul E. Garber Collection, Acc. NASM.1991.0063, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
- Collection Rights
- Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests.
- Scope and Contents
- Sound track from USN KN-10759B. Paul Garber discusses ballooning, beginning with the Montgolfier brother's (Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne)experiments leading to a hot air balloon carrying men in 1783. Garber performs an in-studio demonstration of a hot air balloon with a small alcohol stove and a balloon. Garber lists many early hot air balloon experiments and exhibitions. Jacques Charles made the first hydrogen balloon flight with Les Frères Robert, in 1784. Jean Pierre Blanchard and John Jefferies crossed the English Channel by balloon, in 1785. Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier is the first balloon passenger and later fatality. The first balloon flights in America in 1794. The first use of balloons in war. Long distance (The Great Nassau with Charles Green, Edward Spencer, and Robert Cocking) and high altitude (Henry Coxwell and James Glaisher to approximately 39000 feet (11.887 km) flights are made. Early American balloonists are discussed. Various schemes to fly the Atlantic in a balloon are discussed. The relation between Thaddeus Lowe and the Smithsonian is discussed. This reel ends with Thaddeus Lowe's Civil War activities.
- Collection Restrictions
- No restrictions on access.
- Record ID
- ebl-1561385422181-1561385422662-8
- Metadata Usage
- CC0