Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (aka Nadar)
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.
Nadar commissioned the aeronautical services of the Godard family, first chartering a balloon and hiring them to operate it, then commissioning the construction of Le Géant in 1860.[1]
At a public reading of his "Manifeste de l'Autolocomotion aérienne", given in 1863, he said, "To struggle against the air, one must be specifically heavier than it.".
His son, Paul Tournachon a.k.a. Paul Nadar went into the same line of work.
Patents whose inventor or applicant is Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (aka Nadar)
- Patent FR-1858-38509 (English title: Aerial photography, Filing date: 1858-10-23)
