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   How did the Montgolfier brothers change aviation history?

   • Their invention, the Montgolfière-style hot air balloon, propelled the brothers to international stardom when, in 1783, it carried Jacques-Étienne in the first ever successful balloon flight with a human pilot. Here’s how the brilliant Montgolfier brothers changed aviation history forever.

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   How did the Montgolfier brothers levitate into the sky?

   • In the 1780s the Montgolfier brothers and Charles engaged in a spectacular race to levitate into the sky using gas-powered balloons. Their “artificial clouds,” as one writer described the flying globes, would enthrall the French capital and set off a craze for all things balloon.

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   Where were the Montgolfier brothers born?

   • The brothers were born in Annonay, France: Joseph-Michael, on August 26, 1740; Jacques-Ètienne on January 6, 1745. They were two of 16 children born to Pierre Montgolfier, a successful paper manufacturer with factories in southern France.

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   How did the Montgolfiers test a balloon?

   • The Montgolfiers' next step was to test a balloon with a person as the passenger. On Oct. 15, 1783, the brothers launched a balloon on a tether with Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, a chemistry and physics teacher, aboard. He stayed aloft for almost 4 minutes, according to Encyclopedia Britannica.

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   They invented the Montgolfière -style hot air balloon, globe aérostatique, which launched the first confirmed piloted ascent by humans in 1783, carrying Jacques-Étienne. Joseph-Michel also invented the self-acting hydraulic ram (1796) and Jacques-Étienne founded the first paper-making vocational school.

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   Apr 9, 2019 · The Montgolfier brothers launched the first flight of a hot-air balloon in 1783, paving the way for further human exploration of the sky.

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   The Montgolfier brothers. Credit for the invention of ballooning goes to a pair of 18th-century brothers, Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier of Annonay, a small town just south of Lyon, France. According to one, possibly apocryphal, story, the brothers took inspiration from watching Joseph’s wife’s skirts as they billowed in the ...

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   The device, invented by French brothers Joseph-Michael and Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier, allowed humans for the first time to view the world from a bird’s perspective and helped inspire subsequent interest in the developing field of aviation.

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   Aug 22, 2022 · Their invention, the Montgolfière-style hot air balloon, propelled the brothers to international stardom when, in 1783, it carried Jacques-Étienne in the first ever successful balloon flight with a human pilot. Here’s how the brilliant Montgolfier brothers changed aviation history forever.

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   As historian Charles Coulston Gillispie notes in his book "The Montgolfier Brothers and the Invention of Aviation," the brothers‘ experience with paper manufacturing gave them "an intimate familiarity with the properties of paper, a light and strong material, and with the handling of large sheets of it" (Gillispie, 1983, p. 23).

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    Jun 24, 2009 · In the 1780s the Montgolfier brothers and Charles engaged in a spectacular race to levitate into the sky using gas-powered balloons. Their “artificial clouds,” as one writer described the flying globes, would enthrall the French capital and set off a craze for all things balloon.