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Hot air balloons

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  • Mr. Nicholson's thousand guinea fete : Cremorne House, King's Road, Chelsea : first day - Monday, July 31st ...
  • The evolution of a monkey into a boy and a balloon into a cage for a parrot; representing Darwin's theories. Wood engraving after C. Bennett, 1863.
  • Grand philosophical, optical, & mechanical exhibition / by M. de Philipsthal.
  • Air balloon : at Mr. Patterson's Great Room, no. 6, King-Street, Covent-Garden on Monday, the 1st of December, and every evening during the week, will be delivered a lecture on air / by J. Dinwiddie.
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    Mr. Nicholson's thousand guinea fete : Cremorne House, King's Road, Chelsea : first day - Monday, July 31st ...

    | Date: [between 1840 and 1849?]
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    The evolution of a monkey into a boy and a balloon into a cage for a parrot; representing Darwin's theories. Wood engraving after C. Bennett, 1863.

    Bennett, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1829-1867. | Date: 1863 | Reference: 12104i
    Part of: The origin of species, dedicated by natural selection to Dr. Charles Darwin
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Air balloon : at Mr. Patterson's Great Room, no. 6, King-Street, Covent-Garden on Monday, the 1st of December, and every evening during the week, will be delivered a lecture on air / by J. Dinwiddie.

    | Date: [1783]
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Grand philosophical, optical, & mechanical exhibition / by M. de Philipsthal.

    Philipsthal, Paul de, -1829. | Date: [1784?]
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