Henri Vannaisse

Henri-Laurent Vannaisse, often spelled Vanaisse, was an aero author and inventor, who envisioned a kind of aerial ocean liner, a dirigible balloon. From what we know so far, he may not have made anything or advanced the technology.

• Inventor location: 19 rue de la Plaine, les Ternes, Paris

Sources to draw from:

• His little book itself: https://books.google.com/books?id=ipw5AAAAcAAJ, in readable form: [1]
• This document refers to Vannaisse as author of Solution pratique de la navigation aérienne, Dentu, 1865
• This has a meaningful essay including quotes from Vanaisse: https://archeosf.blogspot.com/2011/05/le-navire-aerien-de-monsieur-h-vanaisse.html and https://archeosf.blogspot.com/2011/05/
• Martín, 2016 Eloy Martín. 2016. Antecedentes de operaciones militares con medios aéreos hasta 1865. pages 74 and 80. -- good pix
• Vannaisse's 1863 work is in the U of Minnesota libraries Ballooning Collection, described this way: Vannaisse, Henri. Solution pratique de la navigation aerienne… [Paris] Dentu, 1863. 34p. fold. pl. 17 ½ cm. [Aeronautical collection. 277] [P] (https://www.lib.umn.edu/scrbm/ballooning-collections)
• a Web search brings up Brooks, 1992, which may refer to Vainnaisse but Scribd isn't offering a direct search. Peter W. Brooks. 1992. [https://www.scribd.com/document/335538187/Putnam-Zeppelin-Rigid-Airships-1893-1940-OCR Zeppelin: Rigid Airships 1893-1940. Smithsonian Institution Press.
• another ref to Vannaisse's book: Zuchold, 1864, Bibliotheca aeronantica, https://books.google.com/books?id=0Jo5AAAAcAAJ [2]
• this has an image from Vanaisse: http://kulturserver-nds.de/home/hubtest/medien/ACD-allNAILS%20bis%201936.pdf
•  ? maybe: http://kulturserver-nds.de/home/hubtest/medien/Neg.Nr.GUN.pdf but it's not loading on my Mac at home
• This 1938 Works Progress Administration bibliography refers to Vannaisse on pages 46, 125, and in the index, as author of Solution pratique de la navigation aérienne, published by Dentu in Paris, 1863
• same patent or another? in SMIP: [3]
• INPI: http://bases-brevets19e.inpi.fr/index.asp?page=rechercheAvancee
• From NASM: https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/navire-aerien-par-m-h-vannaisse/nasm_A20140415000, https://airandspace.si.edu/multimedia-gallery/nasm-f8b352549a0b2001jpg

Patents whose inventor or applicant is Henri-Laurent Vannaisse or Henri Vannaisse or Henri Vanaisse

• Patent FR-1863-59012 (English title: Aerial vessel, Filing date: 1863-06-12)

Publications by or about Henri-Laurent Vannaisse or Henri Vannaisse or Henri Vanaisse

• Vannaisse, 1863, Solution pratique de la navigation aérienne (Simple title: Practical solution of air navigation)

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