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Display Status

This object is on display in Restoration Hangar Overlook at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA.

Restoration Hangar Overlook

Object Details

Date

March 1, 1789

Type

ART-Prints, Original

Medium

Print, Etching on Paper, Uncolored

Physical Description

Uncolored etching of the aircraft suggested by Franceso Lana de Terzi (1631-1687), in Prodromo (1670). The four metal globes are evacuated so as to make the craft buoyant. The craft was never constructed and was beyond the technology of the period. The image is clipped from a 1789 edition of The European Magazine.
'Published by J. Sewell, Cornhill, 1st March 1789.'

Dimensions

2-D - Unframed (H x W): 18.4 × 11.9cm (7 1/4 × 4 11/16 in.)
2-D - In Frame (H x W x D): 31.7cm × 25.4cm × 3.8cm (12 1/2 × 10 × 1 1/2 in.)

Inventory Number

A20140515000

Credit Line

Gift of the Norfolk Charitable Trust

Data Source

National Air and Space Museum

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