Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão (December 1685 – 18 November 1724) was a Portuguese priest and naturalist, who was a pioneer of lighter-than-air airship design.

Picture: Passarola, Bartolomeu de Gusmão's airship#inventions pic.twitter.com/KqmuDWa2RY

— Of Things Past And Imagined (@VeraNijveld) December 2, 2019

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on: December 02, 2019 at 05:08AM