Adolphe Pégoud and Louis Bleriot world cup and 'Gelseminum sive Jasminum luteum

and 'Gelseminum sive Jasminum luteum ordoratum virginianum scandens

Innholders' Hall

Hibernian footballer George Best practices his ball control watched by coach John Lambie at Easter Road

'Elec 1665'

Botanical study of a specimen of capsicum with upright orange peppers

Adolphe Pégoud and Louis Bleriot world cup and 'Gelseminum sive Jasminum luteumAdolphe Pgoud and Louis Bleriot, French aviators, Brooklands, Surrey, 1913. Adolphe Clestin Pgoud (1889 1915) was a test pilot for Bleriot (1872 1936), the French pilot and aircraft designer who was the first to fly across the Enlgish Channel. Pgoud famously looped the loop on 21 September 1913. It was publicised as the first successful completion of the manoeuvre but it later transpired that Pyotr Nesterov, a Russian army pilot, had achieved the feat