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Object details:

Title: The First Carriage, the "Aerial"
Smithsonian Record ID: edanmdm:nasm_A20140535000

	Title
	The First Carriage, the "Aerial"

	Metadata Usage
	Not determined

	Guid
	http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv945e95515-dcad-4083-b738-264ecedf6c84

	Data Source
	National Air and Space Museum

	Medium
	Print, Lithograph on Paper, Colored

	Dimensions
	2-D - Unframed (H x W): 32.4 × 44.5cm (12 3/4 × 17 1/2 in.)

	Physical Description
	Colored lithograph of Stringfellow and Henson's the "Ariel" aloft over London. William Samuel Henson, John Stringfellow, Frederick Marriott, and D.E. Colombine, incorporated the "Aerial Transit Company" under English law in 1843. Their goal was to fund the construction of a flying machine capable of carrying "letters, goods and passengers from place to place through the air." Henson built a scale model of his design, which made one tentative steam powered run down a guide wire. Unsuccessful attempts to fly the small model, and a larger model with a 20-foot wing span, happened between 1844 and 1847. In an attempt to gain investors and support in Parliament, the company engaged in a major publicity campaign using images of the Ariel in exotic locales, but the company failed to gain the needed investment.

	Physical Description
	'London. Pubd. March 28th, 1843 by Ackerman & Co. Strand. W.E. Walters Lith. Day & Haghe, Lithrs. To the Queen, 1843.'

	Credit Line
	Gift of the Norfolk Charitable Trust

	Inventory Number
	A20140535000

	Date
	March 28, 1843

	Type
	ART-Prints, Original

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