Inflatable globe made of printed and coloured paper. 12 glue - Lot 218

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Inflatable globe made of printed and coloured paper. 12 glue - Lot 218
Inflatable globe made of printed and coloured paper. 12 glued spindles leaving a space at the Antarctic pole to insert a balloon. Cartridge indicating "Globe by import patent, drawn up by A. Desmadryl, Geographer attached to the Gal de la Grre depot, and published by Benoît, Troyes (Aube)1833". L. folded 140 cm - D. inflated 90 cm (three feet) BP Balloon provided (modern). Only 5 inflatable spheres are known: - The one by George & Ebenezer Pocock, Bristol, 1831. - A globe inspired by the Pocock globe by Phillip Cella in 1831. - This inflatable globe of three feet in diameter by Desmadryl Aîné in Troye in 1832. - An "aerophyte globe" by A. Tardieu "in Paris and Strasbourg, 1832" (quoted by Ch. de Martens in his diplomatic guide). - A "portable earth-pneumatic globe" by Grimm, Berlin, 1832 Bibliography: Louis Morin, La sphère de Mrs Desmadryl, Imprimerie Catalane. Perpignan, 1914. Diameters of the globes of the old regime (which will remain the rule until the middle of the 19th century to be replaced by a ratio on the scale of the globe): 3 inches: 8.12 cm, 6 inches: 16.25 cm, 9 inches: 24.4 cm, one foot: 32.5 cm, three feet: 97.5 cm. BENOÎT Edme, Michel (1792-1838, active from 1831 to 1838): he is a mechanic-constructor of mechanical presses and he works with Claude Marie Aristide François, who lives in Saint-Quentin, on the invention of a lithographic cylinder press (patented in 1827) to reproduce large engravings, and then of a litho-typographic press for printing maps. He demonstrated his press in the Chamber of Deputies where "it prints during the sitting itself", and was awarded a prize by the Society for the Encouragement of National Industry at its sitting on 29 December 1830.
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