Manned balloon flight by Captain Vincenzo Lunardi, the Italian daredevil aeronaut, at London, September 1784. Woodblock engraving 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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