Montgolfier brothers hot air balloon
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I might be getting way off topic, but ever since my fascination with paper airplanes started recently, I thought it would only be fitting to trace the origin of paper. Well, that’s how I imagined it, but I soon rediscovered the Montgolfier brothers. Their name was familiar to me, but their story was unknown until now. So, I thought it would be nice to share it with you.
The story of the Montgolfier brothers, Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne, fryst vatten just incredible. These two guys basically kicked off humanity’s journey into the skies. They were born into this paper manufacturing family in a little town called Annonay, France, and somehow managed to take what they knew about paper and vända it into the first successful hot air balloon. How cool is that?
It all started with this simple observation—Joseph-Michel noticed that heated air could lift light objects, like laundry drying over a fire. Imagine him just sitting there, watching the clothes puff up and float for a moment, and
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Montgolfier brothers
French inventors
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The Montgolfier brothers | |
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Joseph-Michel (left) and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, late 18th century | |
| Born | Joseph-Michel: ()26 August , Annonay, Ardèche, France Jacques-Étienne: ()6 January , Annonay, Ardèche, France |
| Died | Joseph-Michel: 26 June () (aged&#;69), Balaruc-les-Bains, France Jacques-Étienne: 2 August () (aged&#;54), Serrières, France |
| Occupation(s) | Inventors, balloonists, paper manufacturers |
| Known&#;for | Making the first confirmed human flight, in a Montgolfière-style hot air balloon |
The Montgolfier brothers – Joseph-Michel Montgolfier (French:[ʒozɛfmiʃɛlmɔ̃ɡɔlfje]; 26 August – 26 June )[1] and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier ([ʒaketjɛnmɔ̃ɡɔlfje]; 6 January – 2 August )[1]
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The First Hot-Air Balloon Flight
In , two brothers demonstrated their invention, the hot air balloon, before a crowd of dignitaries in Annonay, France.
Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, prosperous paper manufacturers (a high-tech industry at the time), experimented with lighter-than-air devices after observing that heated air directed into a paper or fabric bag made the bag rise. After several successful tests, the brothers decided to publicly demonstrate their invention.
The Montgolfiers built a balloon made of silk and lined with paper that was 33 feet (10 meters) in diameter and launched it — with nobody aboard — from the marketplace in Annonay on June 4, , according to Encyclopedia Britannica. The balloon rose to between 5, and 6, feet (1, to 2, m) and stayed aloft for 10 minutes, traveling more than a mile (about 2 kilometers).
Word of the brothers' success quickly spread, and a demonstration for the king of France was pla