Boat sailed by aerostatic 'wings' mb-code 2592234 View of the stairway to

View of the stairway to Lincoln's Inn Chapel

East India Dock

Plate 15 figure 2 from the paper 'Some farther account of the fossil remains of an animal

pictured outside Army Recruiting Office ahead of his National Service Medical

Boat sailed by aerostatic 'wings' mb-code 2592234 View of the stairway toPlate 21 for the paper 'Sur un moyen de donner la Direction aux machines aerostatiques', by Comte de Galvez [Bernardo de Glvez y Madrid, Viscount of Galveston and Count of Glvez (1746 1786)], Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 74 part 2 (1784), pp. 469 470. The illustration shows the vessel under way with three pairs of 'sails' being operated manually. The papers states that these were inspired by 'the use birds make of their wings