
What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: 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 Recorded plaque organisation: Wolverhampton Civic Society, British Gas TransCo.
James Glaisher FRS, a meteorologist, and Henry Coxwell, an aeronaut, set a world altitude balloon record of approximately 30,000 feet without oxygen in 1862, significantly advancing scientific knowledge about the upper atmosphere.
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