Airing the balloon in Tehran during the Qajar period + photo

There is a photo from the year 1273 in the historical archives that shows an American ballooning in Tehran.

This photo has been published in the archives of the National Archives with an explanation of the balloon that Mesioun (The American World) blew up in 1312. Hot air ballooning in Tehran was one of the strange pastimes of the Qajar period, and Naser al-Din Shah Qajar also mentioned hot air ballooning in Tehran in his daily memories.

In the memoirs of Naser al-Din Shah, on the eighth day of Rabi-ul-Awl in 1294, there is a story of blowing up two balloons from Jalukhan Dar al-Funun. In his memoirs, he wrote that the first balloon was red and did not rise much and fell in the garden of Atizad al-Doleh. The second balloon was white and well-composed and stayed in the sky for half an hour and gave a great show to the people and fell in the Sepehsalar garden.