'The Vauxhall balloon of Mr. Green' Engine room worker seated in a red-brown armchair

seated in a red-brown armchair

View with Somerset House behind and to the left of the tower

You done yer werry best to win

Napoleon leans against the wall

Tower Dock

'The Vauxhall balloon of Mr. Green' Engine room worker seated in a red-brown armchairView of the Royal Vauxhall, later renamed Royal Nassau flown by the pioneering balloonist Charles Green (1785 1870). The balloon was inflated using coal gas and launched from sites that included Vauxhall Gardens in London. Plate from Animal locomotion or walking, swimming and, and flying, with a dissertation on aeronautics, by James Bell Pettigrew (Henry S. King & Co., London, 1873). James Bell Pettigrew (1832 1908) comparative anatomist, was elected