MANUSCRIBE. - GIRARD (Lieutenant). Project... - Lot 343 - Giquello

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MANUSCRIBE. - GIRARD (Lieutenant). Project... - Lot 343 - Giquello
MANUSCRIBE. - GIRARD (Lieutenant). Project for the invention of a "Solidarity" airship. Algiers, August 30, 1903. Manuscript in-folio, title and 55 leaves, one leaf of diagrams interspersed between pp. 48-49, paperback, modern box. Interesting manuscript describing the project of invention of a military aircraft. This apparently unpublished memoir would have been written by an officer and submitted to a hierarchical authority. It is adorned with 2 pencil diagrams describing the hot air circuit supplied by the aircraft's engine. The text also refers to 4 plates which are not present here. If the flying machine was, at first, exclusively reserved for the army, one realizes that the author also had much more philanthropic ambitions regarding its use: I dare to believe that you will allow me to realize my dream, if it is not too illusory and to hope that one day my Aircraft Solidarity, after having returned to France the military services that one can expect from an airship in time of war [...]....], will fly through the air and go beyond the frontiers, beyond the mountains & beyond the seas to bring to the peoples freed by France and Reason, words of Peace & Freedom and to establish between them indissoluble bonds of universal Fraternity and Solidarity.
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