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Plate 8: Rockets
- 1660
Figs. 17 B-C: Rocket with external pyrotechnic cases and its parts.
Fig. 18 A: Rocket with fiery rain.
Fig. 19: Rocket with fins.- Engraver Brawe, Hermann
- Publisher Schwänder, Johann Georg
- Subject Rocketry, Ordnance, Explosives, Artillery, Fireworks
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Plate 9: Instruments for launching rockets
- 1660
Fig. 19 B: Platform for launching rocket with fins (figure 19).
Fig. 20: Tube for launching rocket.- Engraver Brawe, Hermann
- Publisher Schwänder, Johann Georg
- Subject Rocketry, Ordnance, Explosives, Artillery
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Plate 7: Rockets
- 1660
Figs. 16 A-C: Rockets with internal pyrotechnic cases.
Fig. 17 A: Rocket with external pyrotechnic cases.- Engraver Brawe, Hermann
- Publisher Schwänder, Johann Georg
- Subject Rocketry, Ordnance, Explosives, Artillery
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Plate 6: Instruments for rocket making and launching
- 1660
Fig. 13: Rocket mounted to a stick.
Fig. 14: Launch platform for figure 13.
Fig. 15: Machine for boring into rockets.- Engraver Brawe, Hermann
- Publisher Schwänder, Johann Georg
- Subject Rocketry, Ordnance, Explosives, Artillery
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Plate 5: Instruments for rocket making
- 1660
Figs. 11 A-C: Tools to choke the neck of a paper rocket case.
D: Mallet to fill rocket.
E: Scale to calculate the size of a lead ball.- Engraver Brawe, Hermann
- Publisher Schwänder, Johann Georg
- Subject Rocketry, Ordnance, Explosives, Artillery, Weights and measures
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Plate 3: Rocket mold
- 1660
- Engraver Brawe, Hermann
- Publisher Schwänder, Johann Georg
- Subject Rocketry, Ordnance, Explosives, Artillery
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Plate 4: Instruments for rocket making
- 1660
Fig. 10 A: Rod to wind paper casings.
B: Rod to tamp powder.
C: Mallet.
D: Disk used in filling rocket casings.
Also depicted: Boring tool.- Engraver Brawe, Hermann
- Publisher Schwänder, Johann Georg
- Subject Rocketry, Ordnance, Explosives, Artillery
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Plate 2: Metal pipkin with lid and rod for cooking explosives
- 1660
- Engraver Brawe, Hermann
- Publisher Schwänder, Johann Georg
- Subject Ordnance, Explosives, Artillery
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Plate 1: Instrument to gauge explosive thrust
- 1660
- Engraver Brawe, Hermann
- Publisher Schwänder, Johann Georg
- Subject Ordnance, Explosives, Artillery, Weights and measures
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9 items
Description des expériences de la machine aérostatique de MM. de Montgolfier
- Description of the aerostatic machine experiments of Mr. & Mr. Montgolfier
- 1783
Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond’s Description des expériences assembles first-hand observations, research, technical descriptions, letters, tables, diagrams, and illustrations related to the groundbreaking experiments…
- Author Faujas-de-St.-Fond, cit. (Barthélemy), 1741-1819
- Publisher Cuchet
- Subject Robert, Nicolas Louis, 1761-1828, Airships, Montgolfier, Jacques-Etienne, 1745-1799, Aeronautics, Charles, Jacques Alexandre César, 1746-1823, Ballooning, Hot air balloons, Robert, Anne-Jean, 1758-1820, Montgolfier, Joseph-Michel, 1740-1810
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Artis Magnae Artilleriae
- The Great Art of Artillery
- 1650
Kazimierz Siemienowicz's treatise was used for over a century as a basic manual on artillery, rocketry, and pyrotechnics. It was originally published in Latin (1650) and was translated into French (1651), German (1676),…
- Author Siemienowicz, Kazimierz, -1651?
- Publisher Jansson, Jan, 1588-1664
- Subject Rocketry, Gunpowder, Ordnance, Artillery, Fireworks, Weights and measures
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Plate Q: Pyrotechnic set piece of a dragon
- Part of Artis Magnae Artilleriae
- 1650
Fig. 197: Wooden frame of dragon set piece.
Fig. 198: Disposition of pyrotechnics in the dragon frame.
Fig. 199: Outward appearance of dragon set piece.- Artist Meurs, Jacob van, 1619-1680
- Author Siemienowicz, Kazimierz, -1651?
- Publisher Jansson, Jan, 1588-1664
- Subject Artillery, Fireworks
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Plate 2: Case for producing inflammable gas
- 1783
This case was designed by the Robert brothers, Anne-Jean (1758-1820) and Nicolas Louis (1761-1828) Robert to quickly produce large quantities of hydrogen gas through the reaction of sulfuric acid with iron filings. The…
- Author Faujas-de-St.-Fond, cit. (Barthélemy), 1741-1819
- Publisher Cuchet
- Subject Airships, Ballooning, Hot air balloons
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Plate 1: Robinet
- Faucet
- 1783
This plate illustrates the parts and mechanism of the faucet used to control the gas in the first hydrogen-filled balloon, launched from the Champs de Mars in Paris on August 27, 1783. In the illustration on Plate 3,…
- Author Faujas-de-St.-Fond, cit. (Barthélemy), 1741-1819
- Publisher Cuchet
- Subject Airships, Ballooning, Hot air balloons
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Frontispiece and title page (Plate 5) from Description des expériences de la machine aérostatique de MM. de Montgolfier [Description of the aerostatic machine experiments of Mr. & Mr. Montgolfier]
- 1783
Inscribed: "Expérience faite à Versaille, en présence de leurs Mejestés et de la Famille Royale, par Mr. Montgolfier, le 19 Sept. 1873. La Machine Aérostatique avoit 57 Pieds de haut sur 41 de Diamètre."
On September…
- Artist Lorimier, Etienne Chevalier de, 1759-1813
- Author Faujas-de-St.-Fond, cit. (Barthélemy), 1741-1819
- Engraver Delaunay, Nicolas, 1739-1792
- Publisher Cuchet
- Subject Airships, Frontispiece, Ballooning, Title pages, Hot air balloons
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Plate 7: Meusnier’s observations of the hydrogen balloon, August 27, 1783 (figs. 2-6)
- 1783
Jean Baptiste Marie Meusnier (1754-1793), an officer in the French Royal Corps of Engineers and a mathematician, observed the flight of the hydrogen-filled balloon launched from the Champs de Mars in Paris on August 27,…
- Author Faujas-de-St.-Fond, cit. (Barthélemy), 1741-1819
- Publisher Cuchet
- Subject Airships, Ballooning, Hot air balloons
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Plate 3: Filing the balloon with hydrogen gas
- 1783
Illustration relating to the experiment that resulted in the world’s first hydrogen-filled balloon, conducted in Paris in August 1783, in which a taffeta balloon with a rubber coating was filled with hydrogen gas…
- Author Faujas-de-St.-Fond, cit. (Barthélemy), 1741-1819
- Engraver Berthault, Pierre Gabriel, ca. 1748-ca. 1819
- Publisher Cuchet
- Subject Airships, Ballooning, Hot air balloons
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Plate 4: Machine aerostatique
- Aerostatic machine
- 1783
Inscribed: "de Mr. Montgolfier, construite dans le Jardin de Mr. Reveillon, rue de Montreuil Fauxbourg St. Antoine, aux dépens de l’Académie Royale des Sciences."
Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier (1745-1799) assembled this…
- Author Faujas-de-St.-Fond, cit. (Barthélemy), 1741-1819
- Publisher Cuchet
- Subject Airships, Montgolfier, Jacques-Etienne, 1745-1799, Ballooning, Hot air balloons
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Plate 8: Machine aérostatique
- Aerostatic machine
- 1783
Inscribed: "Machine Aérostatique de 70 Pieds de hauteur sur 46 de Diamètre, qui s’est élevé à Paris, avec deux homme à la hauteur de 324 Pieds le 19. Oct, 1783."
On October 19, 1783, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier…
- Author Faujas-de-St.-Fond, cit. (Barthélemy), 1741-1819
- Publisher Cuchet
- Subject Airships, Ballooning, Hot air balloons
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Plate 9: Bateau volant
- Flying boat
- 1783
Inscribed: "Copié sur celui du Jesuite-Lana."
Faujas de Saint-Fond’s research for Description des expériences took him to the library of the King, where he consulted the book Prodromo, ouero saggio di alcune inuentioni…
- Author Faujas-de-St.-Fond, cit. (Barthélemy), 1741-1819
- Publisher Cuchet
- Subject Airships, Ballooning, Hot air balloons
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Plate 6: Meusnier’s observations of the hydrogen balloon, August 27, 1783 (fig. 1)
- 1783
Jean Baptiste Marie Meusnier (1754-1793), an officer in the French Royal Corps of Engineers and a mathematician, observed the flight of the hydrogen-filled balloon launched from the Champs de Mars in Paris on August 27,…
- Author Faujas-de-St.-Fond, cit. (Barthélemy), 1741-1819
- Publisher Cuchet
- Subject Airships, Ballooning, Hot air balloons
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Plate T: Pyrotechnic set piece of Fortuna (interior)
- Part of Artis Magnae Artilleriae
- 1650
Fig. 202: Cross-section of the set piece of Fortuna, her body enclosing a single pyrotechnic case (as described in figure 189).
- Artist Meurs, Jacob van, 1619-1680
- Author Siemienowicz, Kazimierz, -1651?
- Publisher Jansson, Jan, 1588-1664
- Subject Artillery, Fireworks
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Plate W: Pyrotechnic set piece of a fortified castle; triumphal statue; military pyrotechnics
- Part of Artis Magnae Artilleriae
- 1650
Fig. 204: Outward appearance of fortified castle set piece with diagrams of its inner construction and disposition of pyrotechnics.
Fig. 205: Statue of Mars upon a pedestal for use in public ceremonies of triumph.
Fig.…- Artist Meurs, Jacob van, 1619-1680
- Author Siemienowicz, Kazimierz, -1651?
- Publisher Jansson, Jan, 1588-1664
- Subject Military fireworks, Artillery, Fireworks
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Plate X: Military pyrotechnics
- Part of Artis Magnae Artilleriae
- 1650
Figs. 207-210: Fire crowns.
Fig. 211: Fire hoop.
Figs. 212-215: Pyrotechnic cylinders.
Fig. 216: Wooden bar with iron spikes.
Fig. 217: Fire sack over bar from figure 216.
Fig. 218: Fire sack.
Figs. 219 and 220:…- Artist Meurs, Jacob van, 1619-1680
- Author Siemienowicz, Kazimierz, -1651?
- Publisher Jansson, Jan, 1588-1664
- Subject Military fireworks, Artillery
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Plate V: Pyrotechnic set piece of Fortuna (exterior)
- Part of Artis Magnae Artilleriae
- 1650
Fig. 203: Outward appearance of Fortuna set piece.
- Artist Meurs, Jacob van, 1619-1680
- Author Siemienowicz, Kazimierz, -1651?
- Publisher Jansson, Jan, 1588-1664
- Subject Artillery, Fireworks
