'Mr Henson's flying machine' mb-artistname Hills The plate is inscribed: 'Original

The plate is inscribed: 'Original IDEAS

XXVI from Micrographia: or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses with observations and Inquiries thereupon

with two figures and the Palace of Westminster in the background

the upper edge just visible

At the back is Sir William Harcourt

'Mr Henson's flying machine' mb-artistname Hills The plate is inscribed: 'OriginalView 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