Henri Lachambre

Henri Lachambre ( born December 30, 1846 † June 12, 1904 in Vagney ) was a French aviation pioneer and manufacturer of hydrogen balloons and Snowpark.

His factory was located in the Paris suburb of Vaugirard.

1883 built the Lachambre la Ville de Boulogne for M.Lhoste ( crossing of the English Channel ), a balloon for Tissandier brothers, one for M. Eloy and one for M. Ribeiro de Souza (more than 20 per year). 1895 balloon for the Swiss National Exhibition in Geneva was built. He returned to Alberto Santos -Dumont, to the U.S. Army Signal Corps and the Swedish engineer Salomon August Andrée and Arctic researchers in 1897. Together with his nephew Alexis Machuron Lachambre wrote a book about the balloon expedition to the North Pole Andrées.

After the death Lachambre the manufacture was continued by his widow and E.Carton.

• Les Ballons captifs, leur emploi au point de vue stratégique, notice descriptive sur les appareils à gaz portable, treuils sur chariot, etc., avec Abel Lachambre (1888 )
• Les Ballons à la guerre, paru dans Bibliothèque des connaissances militaires, 3 ( 1888)
• Deux mois au Spitzberg: préparatifs de l' expédition aerostatique polaire suédoise, 1896-97, paru dans la revue hebdomadaire, 8 May 1897
• Andrée. Au pôle Nord en ballon, avec Alexis Machuron (1897 )