'Flying machine designed by M. de la Landelle' mb-code 00383651 Mr Punch raises the stirrup-cup

Mr Punch raises the stirrup-cup in a toast to Prince Leopold

16th century

As a member of the Maserati team he twice won the Italian championship

surrounded by drowning figures

24th December 1940

'Flying machine designed by M. de la Landelle' mb-code 00383651 Mr Punch raises the stirrup-cupImaginary view of a steam powered orthoptere (helicopter) design by the French author Guillaume Joseph Gabriel de la Landelle (1812 1886). Clockwork and other models of prototype helicopters were made by several individuals in France during the 1860s including by de la Landelle and Gustave de Ponton d'Amcourt (1825 1888). These inventions are widely assumed to have inspired Jules Verne's 1886 novel Robur le conqurant (Robur the Conqueror or The