Henri Giffard papers
Publisher: SLUSA
Published: 1985
Language: fre; spa
Number of pages: 65
Subjects: Ballooning; Captive Balloons; Balloons; Hydrogen; Design and construction
Description: Correspondence, notes, design drawings, broadsides, newspapers, printed illustrations, articles about Giffard, newspaper clippings, and other papers relating chiefly to Giffard's exhibition of a large captive balloon in the courtyard of the Tuileries in Paris in 1878.  Includes his design drawings for balloons and notes on hydrogen gas.
Notes: Open to research.

Open to research.

Purchase, 1985.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

French engineer and aeronaut.  Full name: Henri Jacques Giffard.

Collection material in French.

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