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Gaston Tissandier (November 21, 1843 – August 30, 1899) was a French chemist, meteorologist, aviator, and editor. He escaped besieged Paris by balloon in September 1870. He founded and edited the scientific magazine La Nature and wrote several books.

His brother was illustrator Albert Tissandier. His son Paul became a well known aviator in his own right.

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Gaston Tissandier

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Gaston Tissandier (November 21, 1843 – August 30, 1899) was a French chemist, meteorologist, aviator, and editor. He escaped besieged Paris by balloon...

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Paul Tissandier

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Paul Tissandier (19 February 1881 – 11 March 1945) was a French aviator. Tissandier was the son of aviator Gaston Tissandier and nephew of Albert Tissandier...

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Tissandier

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Tissandier is a surname, and may refer to: Gaston Tissandier (1843–1899), French chemist, meteorologist, aviator and editor Albert Tissandier (1839–1906)...

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Albert Tissandier

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Tissandier (1839 – 5 September 1906) was a French architect, aviator, illustrator, editor and archaeologist. He was the brother of adventurer Gaston Tissandier...

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La Nature

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adventurer Gaston Tissandier. The magazine also received an enormous amount of time, effort, and contributions from his brother, Albert Tissandier. From 1873...

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Heilmann locomotive

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d'Electricité (in French), 51 (10): 470–477 E. Hospitalier (1894), Gaston Tissandier; Henri Parville (eds.), "La locomotive électrique de M. J.-J. Heilmann"...

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Naphtha launch

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Maritime Museum. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-27. Gaston Tissandier (21 July 1888). "Le Bateau A Petrole de M. Lenoir". La Nature (in...

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Airship

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his life. In 1883, the first electric-powered flight was made by Gaston Tissandier, who fitted a 1.5 hp (1.1 kW) Siemens electric motor to an airship...

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Wilfrid de Fonvielle

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he spent two days in a balloon, and in 1869 he traveled 90 km with Gaston Tissandier in 35 minutes. During the siege of Paris in the Franco-Prussian War...

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Electric aircraft

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in the latter part of the nineteenth century. On 8 October 1883, Gaston Tissandier flew the first electrically powered airship.: 292  The following year...

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1843

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19 – C. X. Larrabee, American businessman (d. 1914) November 21 – Gaston Tissandier, French chemist, meteorologist, aviator and editor (d. 1899) November...

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Henri Giffard

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Henry Giffard, Imp. Collombon et Brûlé, retrieved 17 March 2019 Tissandier, Gaston; Tissandier, Albert, 1839-1906, (illus.) (1879), Le grand ballon captif...

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Timeline of aviation in the 19th century

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flight is made by Gaston Tissandier who fits a Siemens AG electric motor to a dirigible. Airships with electric engines (Tissandier brothers, Renard and...

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Morning News. February 23, 1887. p. 5. Retrieved March 18, 2016. Gaston Tissandier (1889). The Eiffel Tower: A Description of the Monument, Its Construction...

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Imaging particle analysis

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of Microscopical Science (12th ed.). G. Routledge and Sons. p. 8. Gaston Tissandier (1877). A History and Handbook of Photography. Sampson, Low, Marston...

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Rue Bleue

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the early 1840s. No 3: home, in 1899, of the chemist and balloonist Gaston Tissandier (1843-1899). Nos. 5 and 7: between these numbers opens, on the south...

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Sensitive flame

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for Sensitive Flames - Prof. W. F. Barrett "Les Recreations Scientifiques" - Gaston Tissandier "Sensitive Flames and Sound-Shadows". Popular Science....

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List of balloonists

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Project Gutenberg. "EN BALLON! PENDANT LE SIÈGE DE PARIS" (in French). Gaston Tissandier. Retrieved 23 February 2020. Heylli, Georges d'(1833-1902). "Le livre...

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History of aviation medicine

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health and oxygen toxicity; he worked with the French meteorologist Gaston Tissandier. The first fatalities from aviation hypoxia occurred on 15 April 1875...

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Abel Pifre

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"Soleil-Journal". La Nature Journal[permanent dead link] Gaston Tissandier, 26 August 1882, p 193 Tissandier G. Utilization de la Chaleur du Soleil—Imprimerie...

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Pierre Rousseau

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published in La Nature, a popular science magazine founded in 1873 by Gaston Tissandier. His experience as a popular writer fed his future works. His scientific...

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Henry Frith

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Alexandre Dumas Léon Gautier Jules Girardin Adrien Paul Philippe Daryl  Gaston Tissandier Victor Tissot [fr] P. Villars Most of Frith's novels fall into the...

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