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[Newspaper clippings about early aeronautics and Charles F. Durant's experiences and accomplishments as an aeronaut, silk culturalist, naturalist, and scientist].
- Title
- [Newspaper clippings about early aeronautics and Charles F. Durant's experiences and accomplishments as an aeronaut, silk culturalist, naturalist, and scientist].
- Author
- Durant, C. F. (Charles Ferson), 1805-1873
- Publication
- [approximately 1830 to 1851]
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- Description
- 2 volumes : illustrations; [?] and 46 cm
- Summary
- Bound volumes containing newspaper clippings and notes collected by C.F. Durant. The oversize volume of clippings (1834-1837) documents the history of balloon flights, including the personal experiences of the aeronauts while in flight, giving distances, temperatures, and the manner of filling balloons, etc. The other volume documents a history of Charles F. Durant's experiences and accomplishments as an aeronaut, silk culturist, naturalist, and scientist.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Scrapbooks.
- Provenance (note)
- Oversized scrapbook inscribed: in graphite on the upper binder's blank, "C.F. Durant;" and "G.V. Trembley, N.Y.C."
- Call Number
- 3-VDT (Newspaper clippings about early aeronautics)
- OCLC
- 960376320
- Author
- Durant, C. F. (Charles Ferson), 1805-1873, compiler.
- Title
- [Newspaper clippings about early aeronautics and Charles F. Durant's experiences and accomplishments as an aeronaut, silk culturalist, naturalist, and scientist].
- Production
- [approximately 1830 to 1851]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Biography
- C.F. Durant was the first American to pilot a balloon, the importer of the silk-worm to the United States, and the author of several scientific books, including a book on the algae of New York harbor. Durant was the first American to make a profession of ballooning. He made his first ascension at Castle Garden in New York City on September 9, 1930.
- Provenance
- Oversized scrapbook inscribed: in graphite on the upper binder's blank, "C.F. Durant;" and "G.V. Trembley, N.Y.C." NN
- Research Call Number
- 3-VDT (Newspaper clippings about early aeronautics)3-VDT+ (Newspaper clippings about early aeronautics)