Hydrogen Collection

Observation balloon, U.S.A., 9 Dec 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Observation balloon, U.S.A., 9 Dec 1917 (date created or published later). An observation balloon ready to be launched over German trenches in Europe in World War I.

German observation balloon, between 1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
German observation balloon, between 1914 and c1915.

Balloon leaving from Gare du Nord, Paris, Franco-Prussian War, 1870
Balloon Ville d Orleans after leaving Gare du Nord at night 24 November 1870, during siege of Paris during Franco-Prussian War

The German airship Hindenburg blows up, Lakehurst, New Jersey, USA, 6 May 1937. The passenger airship Hindenburg was destroyed when it caught fire while mooring

Reception of the Robert Brothers by the Prince of Ghistelles in 1784, (1887). Artist: Gaston Tissandier
Reception of the Robert Brothers by the Prince of Ghistelles in 1784, (1887). French balloonists Noel and Jean Robert, recieved by Philippe-Alexandre-Emmanuel-Francois-Joseph de Ghistelles at his

Antoine Lavoisiers apparatus for synthesizing water from hydrogen (left) and oxygen (right), 1881. The discoverer of oxygen

Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles, French physicist, c1783. Artist: Simon Charles Miger
Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles, French physicist, c1783. Print celebrating the first ascent in a hydrogen-balloon, made by Charles (1746-1823) from the Tuileries, Paris, on 1 December 1783

Chemical lecture, 1802. Artist: James Gillray
Chemical lecture; Scientific Researches! - New Discoveries in Pneumaticks! or - an Experimental Lecture on the Powers of Air!, 1802

Leon Gambetta, French politician about to escape besieged Paris, Franco-Prussian War, 1870
Leon Gambetta (1838-82), French Republican politician (in hat, centre) about to escape besieged Paris for Tours by balloon, 7 October 1870. Dictator of France for 5 months. [Paris, 1890]

Balloon ascent at night from Gare du Nord, Paris, Franco-Prussian War
Balloon ascent from Gare du Nord, Paris, at night, to carry dispatches out of besieged city during Franco-Prussian War. In foreground men are picking up basket of homing pigeons which the baloon

Inflation of Charles and the Robert brothers hydrogen balloon, 1783 (c1807). Jean and Noel Robert helping Jacques Charles (1746-1823)

Inflating a hydrogen balloon, 1845. Hydrogen is produced by covering barrels of iron filings with sulphuric acid. The gas is then fed into the balloon

Crash of La Republique, 1909. The French military airship (dirigible) La Republique which made her maiden flight from Paris to Compiegne in 1908

La Republique on her maiden flight, 1908. The French military airship (dirigible) La Republique on her maiden flight from Paris to Compiegne. From Le Petit Journal. (Paris, 20 September 1908)

Vincenzo Lunardi, c1770, was an Italian diplomat who, on 15 September 1784, made the first British ascent in a hydrogen balloon

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