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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 ...

   • Died: Joseph-Michel: 26 June 1810 (aged 69), Balaruc-les-Bains, France, Jacques-Étienne: 2 August 1799 (aged 54), Serrières, France
   • Known for: Making the first confirmed human flight, in a Montgolfière-style hot air balloon

   • Occupation(s): Inventors, balloonists, paper manufacturers

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   Mar 27, 2024 · Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier were French brothers who were pioneer developers of the hot-air balloon and who conducted the first untethered flights. Modifications and improvements of the basic Montgolfier design were incorporated in the construction of larger balloons that, in.

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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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   Who were Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier?

   • Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier were born into a family of paper manufacturers. Their parents were Pierre Montgolfier (1700–1793) and Anne Duret (1701–1760), who had 16 children. Pierre Montgolfier established his eldest son, Raymond (1730–1772), as his successor. [citation needed] Joseph-Michel was the 12th child.

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   Where did the Montgolfier brothers come from?

   • …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 kitchen from the heat of a charcoal burner being used to…

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   What did the Montgolfiers discover?

   • In 1782 they discovered that heated air, when collected inside a large lightweight paper or fabric bag, caused the bag to rise into the air. The Montgolfiers made the first public demonstration of this discovery on June 4, 1783, at the marketplace in Annonay.

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   Who were Joseph and Étienne Montgolfier?

   • The first balloons, both hot-air and hydrogen powered, drew spectacular crowds and set off a craze—balloonomania! An 18th-century hydrogen-filled balloon takes off. Joseph and Étienne Montgolfier were two of sixteen siblings from a prosperous papermaking family in southern France.

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   Apr 9, 2019 · 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...

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   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.

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   Balloon flight - Aviation, Montgolfier, History: 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.

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    Jun 24, 2009 · As Joseph Montgolfier (1740–1810) later related, he was sitting by a fireplace one day in 1782, thinking about the fortress-like island of Gibraltar, then held by Spain. Watching the sparks and smoke go up the flue, he pondered putting hot air to military use.