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Montgolfier brothers
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pronunciation:
[mõgolfyay]
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| Aeronautical inventors: Joseph Michel Montgolfier (1740–1810) and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier (1745–99), born in Annonay, SC France. In 1782 they constructed a balloon whose bag was lifted by lighting a cauldron of paper beneath it, thus heating and rarifying the air it contained. A flight of 9 km/5½ mi, at 3000 ft, carrying Pilatre de Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlandes, was achieved in 1783 - the world's first manned flight. Further experiments were frustrated by the outbreak of the French Revolution. |
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