Jean-Pierre Blanchard and the American Dr. John Jeffries on their cross-channel balloon flight from Dover to Calais, January 1785. Woodblock engraving by Mes after E. Deschamps from Louis Figuier's "Les Merveilles de la Science: Aerostats" (Marvels of Science: Air Balloons), Furne, Jouvet et Cie, Paris, 1868.

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