Gaston Tissandier

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Tissandier in nacelle

Gaston Tissandier, 1843-1899, was a scientist, balloonist, and evidently prolific author, active with his brother Albert-Charles Tissandier. Gaston Tissandier was the father of Paul Tissandier. See also the Tissandier family.

Tissandier 1881 mini electric motor and propeller from 1881 exposition, published in Stevens (1885), digitized by Wikisource's Ineuw

From Stevens, 1885:[1]

Tissandier conceived the idea of employing storage batteries instead of steam or hand power, as the immediate source of energy to actuate the propeller of an elongated balloon. He constructed a small experimental balloon, which was filled with hydrogen, the effective ascensional force being two kilogrammes. A motor, of the Siemens type (Fig. 2), weighing only two hundred and twenty grammes, was made to turn the propeller, which consisted of a pair of vanes, each ten centimetres long; storage-cell, motor, and propeller being supported on a light platform suspended by netting. This "dirigeable" aërostat was exhibited at the Electrical Exposition of 1881, and a bronze medal awarded to the inventor. It attained a speed of about three metres per second.

In 1883 Gaston shared with Duroy de Brignac and Victor Tatin the 3,000 franc award, willed by Charles-Alphonse Pénaud, and granted by the French Academy of Sciences, Aeronautic Commission, in recognition of outstanding work in aero-innovation.

He was one of several notables expressing interest in the Aeronautical Navigation Conference at 1893 World's Fair without these communications showing up in the Proceedings.[2]

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This person had 89 publications and 3 patents in this database.

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Names Gaston Tissandier
Countries FR
Locations Paris, Seine
Occupations balloonist, scientist, aerostatist
Tech areas HTA
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Birth date 1843-11-20
Death date 1899-08-30
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