'Mr Henson's flying machine' mb-artistname Hills Inscribed: 'PETRUS CAMPER

Inscribed: 'PETRUS CAMPER

The plate is inscribed: 'Original IDEAS

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with two figures and the Palace of Westminster in the background

'Mr Henson's flying machine' mb-artistname Hills Inscribed: 'PETRUS CAMPERView of the Ariel steam carriage, a system of flight patented in 1843 by the engineer and inventor William Samuel Henson (1812 1888). Although models of this aircraft design were made, the proposed full scale flying machine was not. Figure 109 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