Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (aka Nadar)

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Brooklyn Museum - Nadar Élevant la Photographie à la Hauteur de l'Art - Honoré Daumier.jpg
Points of late 1850s and early 186os interest inclusive of Nadar note of quotation and publication

Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (aka Nadar) was an aero inventor, a painter and photographer, Paris (33, boulevard Saint-Martin, Seine). He was also a founder of the Society for Aerial Navigation (Provisional) and the Society for the Encouragement of Aerial Locomotion by Machines Heavier than Air. At a public reading of his "Manifeste de l'Automotion aérienne", given in 1863, he said, "To struggle against the air, one must be specifically heavier than it.".

Patents applied for by Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (aka Nadar)


References

INPI France http://bases-brevets19e.inpi.fr/Thot/FrmFicheDoc.asp?idfiche=0165210&refFiche=0100578

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