File:Wonderful ballon ascents - frontispiece.png

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Description Engraving depicting two gentleman in a basket, accompanied by a lady, preparing to ascend to the heavens.
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Source Wonderful ballon ascents : or, The conquest of the skies. A history of balloons and balloon voyages, scan at archive.org online jpg converted to greyscale, B&W points 3% and 75% approximately. slight rotation, needs more perhaps
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current20:01, 4 April 2010Thumbnail for version as of 20:01, 4 April 20101,270 × 2,030 (2.13 MB)Cygnis insignis{{Information |Description=Engraving depicting two gentleman in a basket, accompanied by a lady, preparing to ascend to the heavens. |Source=''Wonderful ballon ascents : or, The conquest of the skies. A history of balloons and balloon voyages, scan at [ht