Keywords: Depart de MM. Charles & Robert, du Jardin des Tuilleries dans leur machine aërostatique.jpg Artwork Print shows the balloon of Jacques Alexandre César Charles and Marie-Noël Robert ascending from the Tuileries Garden Paris France December 1 1783 in the first hydrogen balloon flight Sic itur ad astra written in banner above image Source A G Renstrom LC staff 1981-82 Created/Published S l s n 1783 1 print etching Institution LoC object history exhibition history credit line accession number LOC-image ppmsca 02443 PD-100 Images of Paris from the Library of Congress First manned hydrogen balloon flight by Jacques Charles Robert brothers Etchings of Paris |