Lighter-Than-Air Transport
in the Long Nineteenth Century.
Most material in Net Advance Retro
is very old. It may be obsolete or incorrect.
- General:
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La navigation aérienne
by Arthur Mangin
[Tours: Alfred Mame, 1869]
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Travels in the Air
edited by James Whitbread Lee Glaisher
[London: Bentley, 1871]
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Relation d'un Voyage Scientifique en Ballon
by Camille Flammarion and Ch. Boissay
[Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1873]
English translation in
Travels in the Air
edited by James Whitbread Lee Glaisher
[London: Bentley, 1871]
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Les ballons dirigeables: Expériences de M. Henri Giffard
et de M. Dupuy de Lôme
by Gaston Tissandier
[Paris: Dentu, 1872]
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The Catastrophe of the Zenith
[American Journal of Science 9, 481 (1875)]
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Le grand ballon captif à vapeur de M. Henry Giffard
by Gaston Tissandier, illustrated by Albert Tissandier
[Paris: Masson, 1878] The illustrations are truly astonishing:
technical drawing as a kind of proto-surrealism.
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Observations météorologiques en ballon
by Gaston Tissandier
[Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1879]
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Histoire des mes ascensions
by Gaston Tissandier, illustrated by Albert Tissandier
[Paris: Dreyfous, 1880]
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Le problème de la direction des aérostats
by Gaston Tissandier
[Paris: Le Génie Civil, 1883]
Parts of this copy are unreadable.
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La navigation aérienne
by Gaston Tissandier
[Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1886]
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La photographie en ballon
by Gaston Tissandier
[Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1886]
One of the most important books in the history of photography.
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Bibliographie aéronautique: Catalogue
de livres d'histoire, de science, de voyages et de fantaisie
by Gaston Tissandier
[Paris: Launette, 1887]
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Souvenirs et récits d'un aérostier militaire de l'Armée de la
Loire, 1870-1871
by Gaston Tissandier
[Paris: Dreyfous, 1891]
Abridged English translation:
Bullets and Balloons: Escape From the Siege of Paris 1870
[HistoryNet.Com]
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Voyages dans les airs
by Gaston Tissandier
[Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1891]