TY - MANSCPT DB - Science History Institute DP - Science History Institute M2 - Courtesy of Science History Institute. Rights: No Copyright - United States TI - Balloon flown by Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (Nadar) ID - 3197xn272 AU - Molynk, A. DA - 1863/// YR - 1863 M3 - watercolor (paint) AV - Box 287 VL - Box 287 AN - Box 287 UR - https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/3197xn272 AB - 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). KW - Nadar, Félix, 1820-1910 KW - Aeronautics KW - Postcards KW - Ballooning KW - Hot air balloons KW - Illustrated works LA - French ER -