'Flying machine designed by M. de la Landelle' mb-code 00383651 The plate is inscribed 'Euplectella

The plate is inscribed 'Euplectella Aspergillum

surrounded by drowning figures

inscribed sketch from my bedroom window

Also depicts guards standing at their sentry-boxes

'Flying machine designed by M. de la Landelle' mb-code 00383651 The plate is inscribed 'EuplectellaImaginary view of a steam powered orthoptere (helicopter) design by the French author Guillaume Joseph Gabriel de la Landelle (1812 1886). Clockwork and other models of prototype helicopters were made by several individuals in France during the 1860s including by de la Landelle and Gustave de Ponton d'Amcourt (1825 1888). These inventions are widely assumed to have inspired Jules Verne's 1886 novel Robur le conqurant (Robur the Conqueror or The