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Henry LaChambre - H. LaChambre

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Henry LaChambre - H. LaChambre
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Henry LaChambre - Title: H. LaChambre - Medium: Fine Art Giclee on Canvas - Image Size: Approximately 32 inches x 24 inches - Unframed on Unstretched Canvas - Henri LaChambre (30 December 1846, Vagney, Vosges - 12 June 1904) was a French manufacturer of balloons. His factory was in the Paris suburb Vaugirard. He also participated in ballooning himself carried out 500 ascents. - Lachambre supplied balloons to both the US Signal Corps and the ill-fated arctic mission of S. A. Andree in 1897. He also worked with the Brazilian aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont, taking him for his first balloon ascent and going on to construct his first balloon in 1898 and later the envelopes for his dirigibles. - Together with his nephew Alexis Machuron Lachambre wrote a book about Andree's expedition, Au pôle nord en ballon (Imprimerie Nilsson, 1897, 250 pages), which was quickly translated into Swedish, English, French, German, Italian, Dutch and Polish.