The search for a power unit: 1853-1879

Charles Renard's ten-wing glider (1872)
A design by Michel Loup (1853)
Design by Butler and Edwards (1867)

Vincent de Groof's ornithopter (1874)

Victor Tatin's model ornithopter (1879)

Alphonse Penaud's model airplane or Planophore (1871)

The monoplane of Penaud and Gauchoy (1876)

Charles de Louvrie's Aeronave(c.1865)

Victor Tatin's model monoplane (1879)

Felix du Temple's monolane (1874)