Hydrogen balloon ascent of Jean Augustin Barral and Jacques Alexandre Bixio from the Paris Observatory, 1850. Woodblock engraving by Mes after 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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