Sir Hudson Fysh - transparencies

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Photographs - 280 transparencies (81 col., 46 b&w) - 35 mm.

THE HISTORY OF AERONAUTICS IN GREAT BRITAIN (PLATES) / J.E. HODGSON
154. Title page
155. Fig.2 Roger Bacon on mechanical flight. ca. 1250. From The Mirror of Alchymy: 1597.
156. Fig.3 The aerial voyage of Domingo Gonsales. From Godwine's Man in the Moon, 1638.
157. Fig.4. A gawry, or flying woman. From Paltock's Peter Wilkins, 1751.
158. Fig.5. An aerial race between a Briton and a German. From Owen Cambridge's Scribleriad, 1751.
159. Fig.6. John Wilkins, Bishop of Chester. Wrote on The Art of flying, 1640-1648. Fig 7. Plate from Hooke's Philosophical collections, 1679. Showing Besnier's Flying Machine and Lana's Flying Boat.
160. Fig.8 Joseph Black. Who first suggested that bladders filled with Hydrogen would ascend, 1767-8.
161. Fig.9. Tiberius Cavallo. Who first experimented with Hydrogen-inflated Bladders and Soap-bubbles, 1781.
162. Fig.10 Hot-air and inflammable-air balloons. From Cavallo's History of aerostation, 1785.
163. Fig.12. Zambeccari's first public balloon experiment. Artillery Ground, Moorfields, Nov 25, 1783.
164. Fig.15. Argand's aerostatic experiment at Windsor Castle, Nov 26 1783.
165. Fig.16. A group of aeronauts: Lunardi (centre) and Tytler (next to the left). From Kay's original portraits, 1837-8
166. Fig.18. Grand English balloon. [handbill] Printed by J.P. Coghlan
167. Fig.20. Lunardi's first balloon, 1784.
168. Fig.22. First balloon ascent in England. Lunardi at the Artillery Ground, Moorfields, Sept. 15, 1784.
169. Fig.23. Lunardi's second balloon at St. George's Fields.
170. Fig.26. An exact representation of Lunardi's balloon, as it ascended with Biggin and Mrs. Sage. June 29, 1785.
171. Fig.27. Lunardi's second balloon, 1785.
172. Fig.28. Mrs. Sage. The first Englishwoman to ascend in a balloon. Fig.29. Vincent Lunardi. The first to make a balloon ascent in England.
173. Fig.36. James Sadler's ascent from Hackney, Aug 12, 1811.
174. Fig.30. Medal to commemorate Lunardi's first ascent, 1784. Fig.31. Medal of James Sadler's ascent from Birmingham, 1811. Fig.32. Bronze token commemorative of Sparrow's ascent with Green, Oxford, June 23, 1823. Fig.33. Medal of Charles Green's aerial voyage to Wellburg, 1836.
175. Fig.34. James Sadler of Oxford. The first English aeronaut.
176. Fig.35. James Sadler's ascent from Merton Fields, Oxford. July 7, 1810.
177. Fig.37. James Sadler's ascent from Dublin. Oct 1, 1812.
178. Fig.38. James Sadler's ascent from St. James's Park, Aug. 1, 1814. Fig.39. Stuart Amos Arnold. and his balloon. Aug. 1785.
20th CENTURY AVIATION
179. Louis Bleriot, seated in his monoplane, 1909
180. Louis Bleriot portrait
181. Three [Flying Corps] pilots: Kingsford-Smith, Cyril Maddocks, V.Rendle, 1919
182. Men and boys push the Smith's Vimy, Darwin, 1919
183-184. Signed menu, Queen's School Old Scholars' dinner to Sir Ross and Sir Keith Smith, Grand Central Hotel, Adelaide, 30 Mar 1920
185. Queen's School badge
186. Stamp: First aerial mail received, Great Britain to Australia, 26 Feb 1920
187-188. Sir Ross Smith's funeral, Adelaide, 1922
189. Smithy and Ulm in the round-Australia flight of 1927; leaning against the machine R.Hitchcock, who lost his life searching for them in N.W. Australia in 1929 / The Sun
190. "We'll fly the Pacific Ocean!" Ulm, Kingsford-Smith and Keith Anderson planning their flight / The Sun
191. Australia-England record of 1929; Smithy and Ulm welcomd at Croydon by Sir Sefton Brancker (on Smithy's left) / Graphic Photo Union
192-195. Signed menu, Royal Aeronautical Society, Royal Aero Club, Air League of the British Empire and Society of British Aircraft Constructors' banquet to Lord Wakefield of Hythe, Savoy Hotel, London, 15 May 1930
196. Tommy Pethybridge, Smithy's mechanic, who disappeared with the Lady Southern Cross [1935 ?]
197-199. Fysh and Senator Shane Paltridge speak at Qantas Exhibition, Perth, Nov 1960
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
200-271. Qantas, ANA and TAA in New Guinea, incl. DC, DH Dragon, Catalina, BOAC Constellation, airport buildings, airmail van, Papuans in tribal dress, other buildings, gardens and scenery, late 1940's
UNVEILING QANTAS MONUMENT, 1965
272-280. Sir Hudson Fysh unveils the monument, presented by Qantas to Winton Shire Council, commemorating the foundation of Qantas, July 1965

Reference: The History of aeronautics in Great Britain : from the earliest times to the latter half of the nineteenth century / by J.E. Hodgson. Lond. : OUP, 1924