Special Card Balloon Animals - Cambridge ImprintShelley on the newfangled Hot Air Balloon in 1811, having witnessed a balloon ascent from Christchurch Meadows in Oxford: "The balloon has not yet received the perfection of which it is surely capable; the art of navigating the air is in its first and most helpless infancy; the aerial mariner still swims on bladders, and has not yet mounted the rude raft It would seem a mere toy, a feather, in comparison with the splendid anticipations of the