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A narrative of the two aerial voyages of Doctor Jeffries with Mons. Blanchard : with meteorological observations and remarks : the first voyage, on the thirtieth of November, 1784 from London into Kent : the second, on the seventh of January, 1785, from England into France / by Doctor Jeffries ; presented to the Royal Society, April 14, 1785; and read before them, January, 1786

Title:
Two aerial voyages of Dr. Jeffries with Mons. Blanchard
Author:
Jeffries, John 1745-1819  Search this
Author:
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre 1753-1809  Search this
Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences (U.S.) Aeronautical Archives  Search this
United States Work Projects Administration (New York, N.Y.)  Search this
Former owner:
Burden, William A. M (William Armistead Moale) 1906-1984 DSI  Search this
Subject:
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre 1753-1809  Search this
Jeffries, John 1745-1819  Search this
Physical description:
2, [10], 7-88 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 27 cm
Type:
Sources
History
Date:
1941
1786
Topic:
Balloon ascensions  Search this
Aeronautics--Flights  Search this
Aeronautics--History  Search this
Call number:
TL620.B6 J47 1941
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_93849

A narrative of the two aerial voyages of Doctor Jeffries with Mons. Blanchard : with meteorological observations and remarks : the first voyage, on the thirtieth of November, 1784, from London into Kent : the second, on the seventh of January, 1785, from England into France / by Doctor Jeffries ; presented to the Royal Society, April 14, 1785, and read before them, January, 1786

Title:
Two aerial voyages DSI
Author:
Jeffries, John 1745-1819  Search this
Bookseller:
Robson, James 1733-1806  Search this
Artist:
Russell, John 1745-1806  Search this
Engraver:
Watson, Caroline 1760 or 1761-1814  Search this
Former owner:
Means, James 1853-1920 DSI  Search this
Burden, William A. M (William Armistead Moale) 1906-1984 DSI  Search this
Aero Club of America DSI  Search this
National Aeronautic Association (U.S.) DSI  Search this
Author:
Evelyn Way Kendall Ballooning and Early Aviation Collection DSI  Search this
Subject:
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre 1753-1809  Search this
Physical description:
[8], 7-60 pages, [3] leaves of plates : illustrations (engravings), portrait ; 29 cm (8vo)
Type:
Early works to 1800
Sources
Early works
Place:
England
Date:
1786
Topic:
Balloon ascensions  Search this
Aeronautics--Flights  Search this
Aeronautics--History  Search this
Call number:
TL620.B6 J47 1786 quarto
TL620.B6 J47 1786
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1066846

Ausführlicher Bericht der mit höchster Bewilligung Sr. k.k. Majestät in Wien den 6ten July 1791 unternommenen 38ten Luftreise vom Herrn Blanchard, adoptirten Bürger von Calais und Grossenzerstorf, Pensionär Sr. allerchristlichsten Majestät

Author:
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre 1753-1809  Search this
Former owner:
Naudet, Georges 1900-1983 DSI  Search this
Subject:
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre 1753-1809  Search this
Physical description:
20 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm. (8vo.)
Type:
Books
Date:
1791
[1791?]
Topic:
Balloon ascensions  Search this
Call number:
TL620.B6 A93 1791
TL620.B6A93 1791
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_252089

Blanchard et l'aérostation de Rouen au XVIIIe siècle / par M. Lormier

Author:
Lormier, Charles 1825-1900  Search this
Académie de Roeun  Search this
Former owner:
Naudet, Georges 1900-1983 DSI  Search this
Subject:
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre 1753-1809  Search this
Physical description:
[1], 118-129, [1] p. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1882
1882?]
Topic:
Balloon ascensions  Search this
Call number:
TL620.B6 L87 1882
TL620.B6L87 1882
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_252105

Dr. John Jeffries Estate Book

Creator:
Jeffries, John, 1745-1819  Search this
Names:
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre, 1753-1809  Search this
Jeffries, John, 1745-1819  Search this
Extent:
0.29 Cubic feet ((1 flatbox))
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Date:
1807-1836
Scope and Contents:
This item is a ledger containing early American estates, including John Jeffries.
Biographical / Historical:
American Dr. John Jeffries and French Jean Pierre Blanchard were the first to aerially cross the English Channel. They made their quarrelsome journey in 1785 in a Charliere hydrogen balloon.
General:
NASMrev
Provenance:
National Air and Space Museum Aeronautics Division, transfer, unknown, 1991-0001, unknown
Restrictions:
No restrictions on access
Rights:
Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests
Topic:
Aeronautics  Search this
Aeronautics -- Records  Search this
Balloons  Search this
Airships  Search this
Charliere hydrogen balloon  Search this
Identifier:
NASM.1991.0001
Archival Repository:
National Air and Space Museum Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/pg2522ab6a9-a08c-4ccb-bf41-da60863c098f
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-nasm-1991-0001

French Balloon Scrapbook

Names:
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre, 1753-1809  Search this
Byrd, Richard Evelyn, 1888-1957  Search this
Montgolfier, Joseph-Michel, 1740-1810.  Search this
Udet, Ernst, General  Search this
Extent:
0.35 Cubic feet (1 flat box)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Scrapbooks
Date:
1700s to 1930s
Summary:
This collection consists of a scrapbook, largely concerned with ballooning in France. Many items in the scrapbook are illustrations of early balloon flights, and there are illustrations of imaginary air vehicles, some of which are quite fanciful. The scrapbook also contains content pertaining to airships and aircraft.
Scope and Contents:
This collection consists of a scrapbook, largely concerned with ballooning in France. Many items in the scrapbook are illustrations of early balloon flights, and there are illustrations of imaginary air vehicles, some of which are quite fanciful. Most of the text in the scrapbook is in French, although some of the text is in English and there is a very small amount in German. The scrapbook also contains some material on early aircraft and aviation up through the early 1930s. The scrapbook features information on balloons and ascensions relating to Sadler (James), Coutelle (Jean), Garnerin (André), Garnerin (Elisa), Blanchard (Jean-Pierre), Blanchard (Madeleine-Sophie), Blanchard-Jeffries, Nadar (Félix Tournachon), and the Montgolfier Brothers. Content also pertains to airships, including Renard (Charles) & Krebs (Arthur), "La France;" SCA (Stabilimento di Costruzione Aeronautiche), N.1 "Norge;" and the LZ 127 "Graf Zeppelin." Aircraft shown in the scrapbook includes the Dewoitine D.1 C1, Blériot XI, Blériot XII, Curtiss and Wright biplanes, Breguet-Richet Gyroplane, Breguet Bre.280 T, Dornier Do R Superwal (Super Whale), and the Short S.5 Singapore Mk.I. Notable people depicted in the scrapbook, other than those previously listed, include Ernst Udet, Dieudonné Costes, Jacques-Louis Dusmesnil, Richard Evelyn Byrd, Georges Pelletier d'Oisy, and Maurice Bellonte.

Note: Blank pages have not been digitally reproduced in slideshow, any gaps in numbering are due to their omission. Pages have been rotated to the orientation of their contents for easier viewing.
Arrangement:
Collection is in original order.
Provenance:
F. R. Wright, Purchase, 1943, NASM.XXXX.0254.
Restrictions:
No restrictions on access
Rights:
Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests.
Topic:
Aeronautics  Search this
Balloons  Search this
Airships  Search this
Airplanes  Search this
Genre/Form:
Scrapbooks
Citation:
French Balloon Scrapbook, NASM.XXXX.0254, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
Identifier:
NASM.XXXX.0254
Archival Repository:
National Air and Space Museum Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/pg2b198f7fc-7c30-4b4c-9733-2ba207cf876e
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-nasm-xxxx-0254
Online Media:

Georges Naudet Collection

Creator:
Naudet, Georges, 1900-1983.  Search this
Names:
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre, 1753-1809  Search this
Blériot, Louis, 1872-1936  Search this
Godard, Eugène, 1864-  Search this
Godard, Louis  Search this
Montgolfier, Joseph-Michel, 1740-1810.  Search this
Naudet, Georges, 1900-1983.  Search this
Vedrines, Jules  Search this
Extent:
1.09 Cubic feet ((1 records center box) (1 flatbox))
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Photographs
Publications
Clippings
Postcards
Date:
[ca 1600s-1930s]
Scope and Contents:
This collection includes early ballooning material as well as photographs of early 20th century French pilots. The ballooning material includes material from Jean-Pierre Blanchard, Joseph Montgolfier and Eugene and Louis Godard. The early photographs include the following aviators: Louis Blériot, and Jules Védrines. The following types of material are included: photographs, newspaper clippings, postcards, and books.
Biographical / Historical:
Georges Naudet (June 9, 1900 - May 22, 1983) was a French businessman who was passionately interested in the early history of ballooning and aviation. An amateur in the field of aviation history, he became an avid collector and author.
General:
NASMrev
Provenance:
George Naudet Estate, purchase, 1984, XXXX-0479, NASM
Restrictions:
No restrictions on access
Rights:
Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests
Topic:
Aeronautics -- pre-1903  Search this
Aeronautics  Search this
Aeronautics -- France  Search this
Balloons  Search this
Balloons -- France  Search this
Genre/Form:
Photographs
Publications
Clippings
Postcards
Identifier:
NASM.XXXX.0479
Archival Repository:
National Air and Space Museum Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/pg26a623e60-dcdb-4ff2-a694-9e1d73ab6202
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-nasm-xxxx-0479
Online Media:

Inauguration du monument de l'aéronaute J.P. Blanchard aux Andelys 2 juillet-13 aoùt 1911

Author:
Coutil, Léon 1856-1943  Search this
Former owner:
Naudet, Georges 1900-1983 DSI  Search this
Subject:
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre 1753-1809 Monuments  Search this
Physical description:
[58] leaves : ill. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1911
1911?]
Call number:
TL508 .C87 1911
TL508.C87 1911
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_250710

Jean-Piere Blanchard, physicien-aéronaute : Les Andelys, 4 juillet 1753, Paris, 7 mars 1809 : biographie et iconographie / par Léon Coutil, correspondant du Ministère de l'instruction publique

Author:
Coutil, Léon 1856-1943  Search this
Former owner:
Burden, William A. M (William Armistead Moale) 1906-1984 DSI  Search this
Subject:
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre 1753-1809  Search this
Physical description:
85, [3] p., [3] folded leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1911
Call number:
TL540.B63 C87 1911b
TL540.B63C87 1911b
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_307960

Jean-Pierre Blanchard, physicien-aéronaute : Les Andelys, 4 juillet 1753, Paris, 7 mars 1809 : biographie et iconographie / par Léon Coutil, correspondant du Ministère de l'instruction publique

Author:
Coutil, Léon 1856-1943  Search this
Former owner:
Naudet, Georges 1900-1983 DSI  Search this
Subject:
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre 1753-1809  Search this
Physical description:
80 p., [3] folded leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 26 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1911
Call number:
TL540.B63 C87 1911
TL540.B63C87 1911
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_307962

Journal and certificates on the fourth voyage of Mr. Blanchard who ascended from the Royal Military Academy, at Chelsea, the 16th of October, 1784, at 9 minutes past twelve o'clock, and was accompanied, as far as Sunbury, by John Sheldon ... and, from Sunbury, continued his voyage, alone, to Rumsey, in Hampshire Dedicated, by permission, to His Grace, the Duke of Northumberland

Title:
Fourth voyage--Blanchard DSI
Account of, and observations on, Mr. Blanchard's fourth aerial voyage
Author:
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre 1753-1809  Search this
Bookseller:
Babbs, W., active 1784  Search this
Baldwin, Richard 1724-1770  Search this
Debrett, John -1822  Search this
Elmsley, Peter 1734 or 1735-1802  Search this
Faulder, Robert 1747 or 1748-1815  Search this
Author:
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre 1753-1809 Journal et procès verbaux du quatrième voyage aërien de M. Blanchard  Search this
Inscriber:
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre 1753-1809 DSI  Search this
Former owner:
Kendall, Evelyn Way 1893-1979 DSI  Search this
Printer:
Baker and Galabin  Search this
Physical description:
4, 29, [1] pages 28 cm (4to)
Type:
Early works to 1800
Place:
England
Date:
1784
Topic:
Aeronautics--Flights  Search this
Balloon ascensions  Search this
Call number:
TL620.B6 A4 4thX
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1075105

Journal de ma quarante-cinquieme ascension, la premiere faite en Amérique, le 9. janvier, 1793 / [J.P. Blanchard]

Author:
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre 1753-1809  Search this
Physical description:
27 p. ; 25 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1793
Topic:
Balloon ascensions  Search this
Call number:
TL610.B6 A4X F1793
TL610.B6A4X F1793
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_308711

Journal of my forty-fifth ascension, being the first performed in America, on the ninth of January, 1793 ..

Author:
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre 1753-1809  Search this
Physical description:
27 p. front. 21 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1793
Topic:
Balloon ascensions  Search this
Call number:
TL610.B6A4X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_169334

Mr. Blanchard, adopted citizen of the principal cities in Europe

Subject:
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre 1753-1809  Search this
Ravara, Joseph  Search this
Physical description:
[1] page : illustrations ; 15 cm
Type:
Early works to 1800
Place:
Pennsylvania
Date:
1793
1793]
Topic:
Balloons  Search this
Call number:
TL620.B6 S56 1793
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_500786

Principles, history & use of air-balloons : a prospectus of Messrs. Blanchard & Baker's intended aerial voyage from the city of New-York

Author:
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre 1753-1809  Search this
Baker, Gardiner d. 1798  Search this
Physical description:
ii, 63 p. : front. ; 21 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1993
1796
Topic:
Balloons  Search this
Balloon ascensions  Search this
Call number:
BL2773 .F4 1796a
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_526557

Procès-verbaux lors du troisième voyage aërien de M. Blanchard : accompagné de M. Boby, greffier au Parlement, fait le 18 juillet 1784

Author:
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre 1753-1809  Search this
Former owner:
Naudet, Georges 1900-1983 DSI  Search this
Subject:
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre 1753-1809  Search this
Physical description:
16 p. ; 28 cm. (4to.)
Type:
Books
Date:
1784
[1784]
Topic:
Balloon ascensions  Search this
Call number:
TL620.B6 P96 1784
TL620.B6P96 1784
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_251791

The Gentleman's magazine

Title:
Gentleman's magazine, and historical chronicle 1736-1833
Author:
Nichols, John 1745-1826  Search this
Former owner:
Air Force Cambridge Research Center (U.S.). .) Geophysics Research Division Library DSI  Search this
Subject:
Charles, Jacques Alexandre César 1746-1823  Search this
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre 1753-1809  Search this
Lunardi, Vincent 1759-1806  Search this
Physical description:
v. : ill. ; 22 cm
Type:
Periodicals
Date:
1736
1850
1834-1856
Topic:
Balloons  Search this
Balloon ascensions  Search this
Call number:
AP4 .G3
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_460246

The Morning post : London, N. 3644. October, 18, 1784

Subject:
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre 1753-1809  Search this
Lunardi, Vincent 1759-1806  Search this
Physical description:
4 p. 48 x 32 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1784
Topic:
Balloon ascensions  Search this
Call number:
TL620.B6 M86
TL620.B6M86
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_295916

The first air voyage in America; the times, the place, and the people of the Blanchard balloon voyage of January 9, 1793, Philadelphia to Woodbury, together with a facsimile reprinting of the Journal of my forty-fifth ascension and the first in America, by Jean Pierre Blanchard

Author:
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company  Search this
Frey, Carroll b. 1894  Search this
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre 1753-1809 Journal of my forty-fifth ascension, being the first performed in America  Search this
Physical description:
60, 27 p. incl. front., 1 illus., plates, port., map, facsim. pl. 21 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1943
Topic:
Balloon ascensions  Search this
Call number:
TL620.B6 P43X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_66590

The principles, history & use, of air-balloons. Also, a prospectus of Messrs. Blanchard & Baker's intended aerial voyage from the city of New-York

Author:
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre 1753-1809  Search this
Baker, Gardiner d. 1798  Search this
Physical description:
46 p. front. 17 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1796
Topic:
Balloons  Search this
Balloon ascensions  Search this
Call number:
BL2773 .F4X
BL2773.F4X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_54762

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