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1799 newspaper French aeronaut JEAN BLANCHARD Cross Atlantic HOT AIR BALLOON flight
- inv # 3C-334
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SEE PHOTO(s) - COMPLETE ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the Northampton Mercury (ENGLAND) dated July 20, 1799. This original newspaper contains a front page report that French pioneer aeronaut JEAN-PIERRE BLANCHARD indicated that he would attempt a TransAtlantic balloon flight. Blanchard had been the first person to fly a lighter-than-air balloon across the English Channel (in 1785) but never tried to fly across the Atlantic.
Blanchard was the first to actually propose a TransAtlantic flight by lighter-than-air balloon
Jean-Pierre Blanchard (4 July 1753 – 7 March 1809) was a French inventor, best known as a pioneer in a gas balloon flight, who distinguished himself in the conquest of the air in a balloon, in particular the first crossing of the English Channel, on 7 January 1785.
Talk of flying across the Atlantic began soon after man’s first free [i.e. untethered] balloon flights in 1783 in France–although the longest of these covered only three miles. Writing to a French friend in 1784, George Washington said that “... our friends at Paris, in a little time, will come flying thro’ the air, instead of ploughing the ocean, to get to America.” But airplanes made the trans-Atlantic voyage long before balloons did.
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