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The Montgolfier brothers – Joseph-Michel Montgolfier (French pronunciation: [ʒozɛf miʃɛl mɔ̃ɡɔlfje]; 26 August 1740 – 26 June 1810) and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier (French pronunciation: [ʒak etjɛn mɔ̃ɡɔlfje]; 6 January 1745 – 2 August 1799) – were aviation pioneers, balloonists and paper manufacturers from the commune ...
- Joseph-Michel: 26 June 1810 (aged 69), Balaruc-les-Bains, France, Jacques-Étienne: 2 August 1799 (aged 54), Serrières, France
- Making the first confirmed human flight, in a Montgolfière-style hot air balloon
- Inventors, balloonists, paper manufacturers
Mar 27, 2024 · Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier (respectively, born Aug. 26, 1740, Annonay, France—died June 26, 1810, Balaruc-les-Bains; born Jan. 6, 1745, Annonay, France—died Aug. 2, 1799, enroute from Lyon to Annonay) were French brothers who were pioneer developers of the hot-air balloon and who conducted the first untethered flights.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
