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On This Day in 1785, Two Men Braved Death When They Flew Across the English Channel in a Balloon
The flying balloon had only been invented a couple years before, by French brothers Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier. On June 4, 1783, the Montgolfiers had launched a silk balloon ...
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The Birth of the Balloon
National Air and Space Museum The Great Balloon, or Whig Aerostation National Air and Space Museum The First Air Voyage in North America National Air and Space Museum Ascension of a Montgolfier ...
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Is the Olympic Flame Real?
Gabriela Bhaskar for The New York Times The setup was conceived by the French designer Mathieu Lehanneur as a tribute to the Montgolfier ... the first hot-air balloon that carried people.
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How has transport in the air changed?
Birds! I never knew you could train birds. Aunt Maya: But it was the Montgolfier brothers in France who made the first hot air balloon that could carry people. In 1783 in front of the King and ...
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KS1: Travel and transport. 4: Fantastic flying machines
Birds! I never knew you could train birds. Aunt Maya: But it was the Montgolfier brothers in France who made the first hot air balloon that could carry people. In 1783 in front of the King and ...