Keywords: Le grand ballon captif. Opération du gonflement.jpg Installation of the hot air balloon at the 1878 Paris World Fair Giffard who was at the origin of the project was a French engineer who created a few models of balloons and who also managed to create navigable ones The 1878 hot air balloon was located in the Tuileries For a fee visitors could enter its gondola and admire the view of the city The balloon could go up to about half a mile 1878 engraving 20 5 x 30 5 cm Institution Brown University Library object history exhibition history credit line Bitard Adolphe L' Exposition de Paris 1878 Rédigée par A Bitard avec la collaboration d'écrivains spéciaux Paris Librairie illustrée; Librairie M Dreyfous 1878 accession number 1254167453195254 PD-old Engravings of Paris Images of Paris from the Brown University Library Grand balloon ascents by Henri Giffard 1878 engravings Historical images of Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel from the west Remote views of Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel |