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Early Scientific Balloons

Ascension of Gay-Lussac and Biot in 1804

Credit - ") 2001 National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution (Videodisc No. 2A-03119)"

"Coxwell and Glaisher rise to 24,000 feet"

Credit - ") 2001 National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution (SI Neg. No. A-39094)"

Andree prepares for his polar expedition

Credit - Library of Congress

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