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History of Flight: Early Development of Balloons

National Air and Space Museum

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.
Related link
Record ID
ebl-1561385422181-1561385422662-8
Metadata Usage
CC0
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/pg20cad514d-eed6-4c1e-a667-994f81e8cbb1

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