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| Keywords: Le grand ballon captif de M. Giffard.jpg Hot air balloon at the 1878 Paris World Fair Giffard was a French engineer who created a few models of balloons and who also managed to create navigable ones The 1878 hot air balloon was located in the Tuileries For a fee visitors could enter its gondola and admire the view of the city The balloon could go up to about half a mile engraving 31 x 46 cm Institution Brown University Library object history exhibition history credit line Bitard Adolphe L' Exposition de Paris 1878 Rédigée par A Bitard avec la collaboration d'écrivains spéciaux Paris Librairie illustrée; Librairie M Dreyfous 1878 accession number 1254167108972098 PD-old Engravings of Paris Images of Paris from the Brown University Library Grand balloon ascents by Henri Giffard 1878 engravings | ||||
