Henri Giffard papers, 1852-1910.
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Mixed materialsDescription: 65 items; 1 container plus 1 oversize; 0.2 linear feetSubject(s): Online resources: Summary: Correspondence, notes, design drawings, broadsides, newspapers, printed illustrations, articles about Giffard, newspaper clippings, and other papers relating chiefly to Giffard's exhibition of a large captive balloon in the courtyard of the Tuileries in Paris in 1878. Includes his design drawings for balloons and notes on hydrogen gas.
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Correspondence, notes, design drawings, broadsides, newspapers, printed illustrations, articles about Giffard, newspaper clippings, and other papers relating chiefly to Giffard's exhibition of a large captive balloon in the courtyard of the Tuileries in Paris in 1878. Includes his design drawings for balloons and notes on hydrogen gas.
Photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
French engineer and aeronaut. Full name: Henri Jacques Giffard.
Collection material in French.
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