Bijou airship design. 18th-century drawing and design (with French text) for an airship,proposed by a French inventor Stoupy Bijou. The proposal is titled 'Le veritable navigateur aerien'. This design was published in Paris,France,in around 1790. It shows an airship consisting of five balloons fastened to a sixty-foot (18.2 metres) mast,a rudder,two 12-foot-long (3.6 metres) oars (either side of the basket),and two polygonal vanes (sails) that would be used to control the rise and fall of the airship. The original proposal by Bijou dates from 1784. The Montgolfier brothers had given the first public demonstration of their hot air balloon in 1783 | |
Lizenzart: | Lizenzpflichtig |
Credit: | Science Photo Library / Library of Congress |
Bildgröße: | 2717 px × 3366 px |
Modell-Rechte: | nicht erforderlich |
Eigentums-Rechte: | nicht erforderlich |
Restrictions: | - |