Article ID: CBB156457819

‘Transporting Thought’: Cultures of Balloon Flight in Britain, 1784–1785 (2017)

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Abstract The balloon has long drifted through popular discourse as a symbol of an Enlightenment attitude towards discovery and a Romanticized image of rationality. This article uses two accounts of early British balloon voyages, both published in 1786, and through them attempts to understand the wide range of practices – literary, social, chemical and adventurous – employed by early balloonists in Britain. I argue that the two series of flights recorded by John Jeffries and Vincenzo Lunardi can be read to show two different philosophical ideas of and aspirations for ballooning, each of which is tied to a different British location, and established a different paradigm for the public reception of flight experiments in later years.

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Authors & Contributors
Brant, Clare
Noam Bergman
Andersen, Caspar
Debbie Hopkins
Muthana, Angela
Kirsten EH Jenkins
Concepts
Technology
Balloons and ballooning
Aeronautics; aviation
Air transportation
Aircraft; airplanes
Engineering
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
18th century
21st century
20th century, early
Renaissance
Places
Great Britain
United States
West Indies
North America
France
Australia
Institutions
Royal Anthropological Institute
UNESCO
Science Museum, London
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