The black moon: the first balloon flights (France, 1783)
Queen of the night sky: Sophie and Jean-Piere Blanchard (France, 1784-1819)
Splashdown in Lake Erie: John Steiner (United States, 1857)
The children are gone!: Martha and David Harvey (United States, 1858)
The long voyage: the flight of the balloon Atlantic (United States, 1859)
To the top of the sky: Coxwell and Glaisher's record altitude (United Kingdom, 1862)
The siege of Paris: the balloon-and-pigeon post (France, 1870-1871)
The North Pole balloon: Salomon Andrees's expedition (Sweden and the Arctic Ocean, 1897)
Parachute girl: Dolly Shepherd (United Kingdom, 1903-12).
