First manned flight in a hydrogen gas balloon by Professor Jacques Charles and the Robert brothers, Anne-Jean and Nicolas-Louis, from the Tuileries, December 1783. 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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