- Henri Lachambre
Henri Lachambre (1846 - 1904) was a French manufacturer of
balloon s. His factory was in theParis suburbVaugirard . He also participated in ballooning himself and attained a number of 500 ascents.Lachambre supplied balloons to both the
US Signal Corps ref|parkinson1960 and the ill-fated arctic mission of S. A. Andrée in 1897. He worked together with the Brazilianaviation pioneerAlberto Santos-Dumont , who in 1898 flew his first self-owned balloon.Together with his nephew Alexis Machuron Lachambre wrote a book about Andrée'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.
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# Parkinson, R. J. (1960) "United States Signal Corps Balloons, 1871-1902" in "Military Affairs"
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