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ORIGINAL DRAWING Library of Congress Collection, 1-5-11

 

ONLINE RESOURCES      If you search for "Luigi Piana" +balloon -head, using the Google search engine, (1-5-11), you will find about 25 links. Perhaps the most helpful is the following, in Italian

Breve storia dell'aerostatica italiana "1853 Il 27 novembre Luigi Piana, sperimentando un pallone a doppia camera ispirato ad un antico progetto dei fratelli Gerli, muore forse per ipossia durante un volo ad alta quota sopra Roma." "1853 On November 27, Louis Piana, experiencing a double ball-room inspired by an old project of the Brothers Gerli, perhaps due to hypoxia dies during a flight high above Rome."

 

RECOMMENDED READING

 

L'AERONAVTICA ITALIANA NELL'IMMAGINE 1487-1875 BIBLIOGRAFIA DI GIUSEPPE BOFFITO CON AGGIUNTE DI PAOLO ARRICONI   Timina Caproni Guasti and Achille Bertarelli   Product Details Hardcover: Publisher: Museo Caproni, Milano 1938. ASIN: B004150UBE

Description:      If you search for the title on the net, you will find a number of links. One copy is offered for sale for $510.

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