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World War One: the zeppelin Viktoria Luise emerging from its hangar. Photograph, 1912/1915.

Travels to distant parts of the world performed by Willam Hamilton, represented by an airship piloted by him that is acclaimed by people of different races. Colour lithograph, ca. 1900.

The dirigible balloon La France flies over the countryside around its hangar (Hangar Y) at Meudon. Coloured process print.

International Airship Exhibition, Frankfurt, 1909: a Zeppelin airship, an aeroplane and two balloons airborne over the exhibition site. Process print.

Zeppelin, Z20 : Leciferrin : Galenus Chemische Industrie G.m.b.H. Frankfurt a.M.

Navigazione atmosferica con un aerostato-battello-vapore / memoria di Lanzillo Vincenzo, uffiziale dell'esercito ; letto nel seno della Società di letture e Conversazioni scientifiche di Genova.

Anker-Pain-Expeller : der allein echte, das alte gute Hausmittel / F. Ad. Richter & Co.

Les ballons dirigeables : expériences de m. Henri Giffard en 1852 et en 1855 et de m. Dupuy de Lôme en 1872 / par Gaston Tissandier.

De la navigation aérienne par les aérostats / A. Charvin.

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Airships

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Navigazione atmosferica con un aerostato-battello-vapore / memoria di Lanzillo Vincenzo, uffiziale dell'esercito ; letto nel seno della Società di letture e Conversazioni scientifiche di Genova.

Anker-Pain-Expeller : der allein echte, das alte gute Hausmittel / F. Ad. Richter & Co.

Les ballons dirigeables : expériences de m. Henri Giffard en 1852 et en 1855 et de m. Dupuy de Lôme en 1872 / par Gaston Tissandier.

De la navigation aérienne par les aérostats / A. Charvin.

Travels to distant parts of the world performed by Willam Hamilton, represented by an airship piloted by him that is acclaimed by people of different races. Colour lithograph, ca. 1900.