By permission of the patentees this engraving of the First Carriage, the "Ariel," is respectfully inscribed, to the Directors of The Aerial Transit Company, by their obedient Servants The Publishers.

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• PUBLISHER: London Pubs. March 28th 1843 by Ackermann & Co. Strand.

• MEDIUM: Lithograph,

  DATE: 1843

• EDITION SIZE: Image size 5 5/8 x 8 7/8" (143 x 226 mm).

• DESCRIPTION: W. Walton lith. Day & Haghe lithrs. to the Queen. The Aerial Transit Company was started in England in 1843. The idea was “to convey letters, goods and passengers from place to place through the air….” William Henson and John Stringfellow developed and patented some technologies sought out investors. The craft was a monoplane with a wingspan of 150 feet and able to carry 10 to 12 passengers and was powered by a steam engine. Models of the craft worked and the partners, now numbering four, sought out investors. In the end the project failed as the power plant, the seam engine, weighed too much. Several images were produced of this craft, aptly named Ariel, to promote it to investors. Some of the prints show the craft flying over London, others in different parts of the world such as this which depicts that craft in Egypt with the Pyramids of Giza in the background.

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• CONDITION: Good condition save a minor matline and a crease through title line.

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• CATEGORIES: Prints by Subject , Aviation