Balloon flown by Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (Nadar)
L’aérostat “Le Géant” de Nadar
- 1863 (Date attributed to balloon flight)
- 1909 (Date attributed to postcard)
Postcard featuring a hand-drawn illustrated depiction of the hot air balloon "“Le Géant” ("The Giant") flown by French photographer and journalist Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (1820-1910). A proponent of manned flight, Tournachon (better known by the pseudonym "Nadar") commissioned the prominent balloonist Eugène Godard to construct Le Géant in 1863. 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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Molynk, A. “Balloon Flown by Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (Nadar).” Watercolor (paint), 1863–1909. Box 287. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/3197xn272.
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