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Montgolfier

French brothers whose hot-air balloon was used for the first successful human flight 21 November 1783.

On 5 June 1783 they first sent up a balloon filled with hot air. After further experiments with wood-fuelled fabric-and-paper balloons, and one crewed ascent in a tethered balloon, they sent up two people who travelled for 20 minutes above Paris, a journey of 9 km/6 mi. The Montgolfier experiments greatly stimulated scientific interest in aviation.

The first hot-air balloon was launched in the marketplace of Annonay. Next, they took their invention to the palace of Versailles, where, before a large audience (which included Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette), their balloon ascended, carrying a sheep, a cock, and a duck, and made an eight-minute flight of approximately 3 km/2 mi.

The Montgolfier brothers were papermakers of Annonay, near Lyon. Jacques invented vellum paper. Joseph Montgolfier later developed a type of parachute, a calorimeter, and a hydraulic ram and press.
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NOVEMBER 21 1783: Man's first free-flight was made by Jean de Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlandes in the Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon.
On this day by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
Only a month earlier, the Montgolfier brothers had gripped Europe with news they had sent humans aloft in a vessel lifted by hot air.
Pioneers in an age of enlightenment by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
This year was also the 225th anniversary of the first manned balloon flight pioneered by the French Montgolfier brothers.
WALES: Lighting the night; Spectacular hot air ballooning draws ... by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
 
 
 
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