Bateau volant ws859g81n 0 9p290b295

Design for a flying boat
Postcard featuring a hand-drawn illustrated depiction of a flying boat. The illustration is based on the design proposed by Italian mathematician, naturalist, and aeronautics pioneer Francesco Lana de Terzi (1631-1687) in a 1670 publication.
1670 (Date attributed to boat design)
1909 (Date attributed to postcard)

This postcard is part of a set originally collected in a scrapbook entitled Album Gravures et Cartes-Postales: Vieux Paris Types Petits Métiers et Cris De La Rue (1909).