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Image Title: Navire Aerien, Le Poisson Volant, Invente Et Execute Par M. Camille Vert, Ingenieur-Mecanicien, circa 1859

Creator: Vert, Camille, designer

Date: 1859?

Summary: Broadside announcing the exhibit at the Palais de l'industrie, seances experimentales in Paris of a fish-shaped, steam-powered airship designed by Camille Vert. Features design drawing of the airship, equipped with two propellers and two parachutes. (Source: A.G. Renstrom, LC staff, 1981-82.)

Notes: Title continues: M? par une machine ? vapeur et se dirigeant ? volant? dans tous les sens, au Palais de L'industrie, s?ances exp?rimentales, tous les dimanches, mardis et jeudis, ? 3 heures pr?cises. La machine ci-dessous a fonctionn? en pr?sence de S.M. l'Empereur Napol?on III.

Subjects: Airships--French--1850-1860
Exhibitions--France--Paris--1850-1860
Parachutes--1850-1860

Original Media: Lithograph

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