Hot air balloon at the 1878 Paris World Fair. Giffard was a French engineer, who created a few models of balloons, and who also managed to create navigable ones. The 1878 hot air balloon was located in the Tuileries. For a fee, visitors could enter its gondola and admire the view of the city. The balloon could go up to about half a mile.
Bitard, Adolphe. L' Exposition de Paris (1878). Rédigée par A. Bitard, avec la collaboration d'écrivains spéciaux. Paris: Librairie illustrée; Librairie M. Dreyfous, 1878.