Montgolfier Brothers
- The hot air balloon is the oldest successful human-carrying flight technology.
- French brothers Joseph-Michel Montgolfier (1740 – 1810) and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier (1745 – 1799) built the first hot air balloon out of cloth and paper.
- They discovered that a fabric bag filled with hot air would rise.
- Modern hot air balloon lifted off in 1783 with a demonstration in front of King Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and a crowd of 130000 in Annonay, France.
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I remember reading about these guys when I was 11 or 12 years old and obsessed with flying!
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I would like to take a hot air balloon ride one day. It will be a wonderful experience 🙂
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