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A vacuum airship, also known as a vacuum balloon, is a hypothetical airship that is evacuated rather than filled with a lighter-than-air gas such as hydrogen or helium. First proposed by Italian Jesuit priest Francesco Lana de Terzi in 1670, [ 1 ] the vacuum balloon would be the ultimate expression of lifting power per volume displaced.
Francesco Lana de Terzi's design for a flying boat, 1670 Francesco Lana de Terzi's flying boat concept c.1670. In the year 1670, Francesco Lana de Terzi published a book titled Prodromo, including a chapter titled saggio di alcune invenzioni nuove premesso all'arte maestra ("Essay on new inventions premised on the master art"), which contained the description of a “flying ship”.
A hypothetical craft constructed using this principle is known as a vacuum airship. In 1709, the Brazilian-Portuguese Jesuit priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão made a hot air balloon, the Passarola, ascend to the skies, before an astonished Portuguese court.
The de Lana-Terzi's vacuum airship (1670) Theoretically, an aerostatic vehicle could be made to use a vacuum or partial vacuum. As early as 1670, over a century before the first manned hot-air balloon flight, [11] the Italian monk Francesco Lana de Terzi envisioned a ship with four vacuum spheres.
Using a vacuum to create lift is called a vacuum airship, but it is still impossible to build with the materials available today. In 1709, Bartolomeu de Gusmão approached King John V of Portugal and claimed to have discovered a way for airborne flight.
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Timeline of aviation pre-18th century 18th century 19th century 20th century 21st century begins Aviation portal This is a list of aviation -related events occurring before the end of the 17th century (on 31 December 1700): Antiquity c. 1700 BC Greek myth of Icarus and Daedalus explores the desire to fly and the inherent dangers of it. c. 850 BC Legendary King Bladud attempts to fly over the ...