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Printed Ephemera — 1840-07
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A page from a book which has one section asterisked which is about aerial locomotion. It describes how M. Eugene de Frense is trying to invent a way to steer balloons and he is submitting his findings to the Academy of Sciences.
page, book page
paper, ink
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