Description
The scene is described below the image in English and French
Many lives were lost each year through ships putting to sea over-laden or unseaworthy
A mackerel seller holding a fish
1809 during a banquet
Filling a balloon with hydrogen gas Size:XS: 30 x 20cm The scene is described belowScene showing the inflation of a balloon by hydrogen gas piped from a barrel. The gas was produced by the reaction of sulphuric acid and iron. A preliminary balloon of this type was flown at the Champ de Mars in Paris, France on the 27 August 1783 an event witnessed by Benjamin Franklin. Plate 3 from the book Description des expriences de la machine arostatiques de MM. de Montgolfier, by Faujas de Saint Fond (Paris, 1783). Inscribed below : 'Bertault
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