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Dirigeable de [Pierre] Jullien

  • [Pierre] Jullien's Airship

  • 1850-Nov-06 (Date attributed to balloon design)
  • 1909 (Date attributed to postcard)

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Postcard featuring a hand-drawn illustrated depiction of a navigable balloon designed by French aeronaut Pierre Jullien featuring a clockwork motor and a rudder, elevator, and gondola mounted under the front part of the balloon. Jullien displayed a small model of his balloon at the Paris Hippodrome in November 1850 and notably provided inspiration for modern airships subsequently designed by French railway engineer Baptiste Henri Jacques Giffard (1825-1882). This postcard is part of a set originally collected in a scrapbook entitled Album Gravures et Cartes-Postales: Vieux Paris Types Petits Métiers et Cris De La Rue (1909).

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  • 3.5 in. H x 5.5 in. W
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  • Courtesy of Science History Institute

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  • Box 287

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Molynk, A. “Dirigeable De [Pierre] Jullien.” Watercolor (paint), 1850–1909. Donald F. Othmer Papers, Box 287. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/t435gf19x.

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