Henri Lachambre
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Henri Lachambre | |
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 Studio portrait of Henri Lachambre by Nadar | |
| Born | 30 December 1846 |
| Died | 12 June 1904 (aged 57) |
| Occupations | balloon manufacturer, aeronaut |
| Known for | manufacturing balloons; work with S. A. Andrée and Alberto Santos-Dumont |
Henri Lachambre (30 December 1846, Vagney, Vosges – 12 June 1904) was a French manufacturer of balloons. His factory was in the Paris suburb Vaugirard. He also participated in ballooning himself, carrying out 500 ascents[according to whom?].
Lachambre supplied balloons to both the US Signal Corps and the ill-fated arctic mission of S. A. Andrée in 1897. He also worked with the Brazilian aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont, taking him for his first balloon ascent and going on to construct his first balloon in 1898 and later the envelopes for his dirigibles.
Together with his nephew Alexis Machuron Lachambre wrote a book about Andrée's expedition, Au pôle nord en ballon (Imprimerie Nilsson, 1897, 250 pages), which was quickly translated into Swedish, English, French, German, Italian, Dutch and Polish.
