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James Glaisher, Henry Coxwell, and World Altitude Balloon Record blue plaque

Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, England, United Kingdom

James Glaisher, Henry Coxwell, and World Altitude Balloon Record blue plaque

World Altitude Balloon Record c30,000ft without Oxygen by James Glaisher F.R.S. and Henry Coxwell Ascended from Stafford Road Gas Works which supplied Commercial Coal Gas on 5.9.1862

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