The Great Exhibition "Wot is to Be", Probable Results of The Industry of All Nations in The Year '51, Showing What is to be Exhibited, Who is To Exhibit, in Short How Its All Going to Be Done

The leaders of two armies conversing, their respective troops and camps on either side; above, Minerva observes from her chariot; set design from 'Il Pomo D'Oro'

Mathäus Küsel, after Ludovico Ottaviano Burnacini

The Launch of Blanchard's Balloon at The Hague in 1785

G. Carbentus

Designs for Top and Four Sides of a Snuffbox with Scenes depicting the Ascent of a Hot Air Balloon

Anonymous, French, 18th century

All the World is Going to See the Great Exhibition of 1851

George Cruikshank, David Bogue

The Dispersion of the Works of all Nations from the Great Exhibition of 1851

George Cruikshank, David Bogue

The Baron crosses the Thames without the assistance of a bridge, ship, boat, or balloon, or even his own will

Thomas Rowlandson, Thomas Tegg

A Perspective View of the Building for the Fireworks in the Green Park taken from the Reservoir, London, 1814

Paul Angier, After P. Brookes

Firework display, Nuremberg 1649, reduced copy of 'Kurze Beschreibung dess kunstlichen Feuerwerkes ...'

Anonymous, German, 17th century, Johann Carl Zeuchmeister

Zing! Zing! Boom Boom Boom!!! The Show of the Grrrreat Political Tumblers, from "L'Association Mensuelle no. 13"

J. J. Grandville, Auguste Desperret, Charles Philipon

Tendanda via est qua me quoque possim tollere humo–Virgil, Geor:

James Gillray, Hannah Humphrey

From the Desk to the Throne, A New Quick Step by Joseph Bonaparte the Bass By Messers Nappy and Tally

Thomas Rowlandson, After G. Sauley [Farnham], Rudolph Ackermann, London, Joseph Bonaparte

The Parachute or a Sage Lady's Second Experiment

Thomas Rowlandson