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01. [Lana’s Flying Machine] 02. [Laurent de Guzman’s Balloon] 03. [The Flying Man] 04. [Inflating Balloon with Hydrogen] 05. [The Parachute] 06. [Garnerin’s Descent in a Parachute] 07. [The Brothers Montgolfier] 08. [Charles’s Balloon on its way to the Champ de Mars] 09. [The Ascent of Charles’s Balloon from the Champ de Mars] 10. [The Destruction of Charles’s Balloon] 11. [Ascent of the 19th September, 1783, at Versailles] 12. [Balloon of the Marquis D’Arlandes] 13. [The Balloon of D’Arlandes crossing Paris] 14. [The First Aerial Voyage] 15. [Monsieur Charles and the Duke of Chartres] 16. [Bagnolet’s Balloon] 17. [Le Flesselles] 18. [Blanchard’s Balloon] 19. [Blanchard’s Ascent, (Caricature)] 20. [Blanchard’s Descent] 21. [Ascent from Dijon, 1784] 22. [Ascent of the Duke of Chartres] 23. [The “Minerva"] 24. [The First Attempt to Ascend in England] 25. [Blanchard] 26. [Dr. Jeffries] 27. [Coronation fete at Paris] 28. [The Wreck of the “Geant"] 29. [Pilatre des Roziers] 30. [Employment of a Balloon at the Battle of Fleurus]

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