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Hydrogen filled ballon at anchor near the Pembroke Dock Gas Works, 1906. This design was known as the Charlière hydrogen balloon. With its wicker gondola, netting, and valve-and-ballast system, it was the definitive form of the hydrogen balloon for 200 years.

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