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	The Montgolfier Brothers, pioneer balloonists. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Joseph Montgolfier, born in August 1740 and Étienne Montgolfier born five years later were brothers in a family of sixteen children.
		Joseph and Étienne Montgolfier, saw their hopes becoming reality with the first public demonstration on 4 June 1783.
		On 21 November 1783, the Montgolfier brothers made another test.
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	Montgolfier brothers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Montgolfier brothers, Joseph Michel Montgolfier (26 August 1740 – 26 June 1810) and Jacques Étienne Montgolfier (6 January 1745 – 2 August 1799), invented the montgolfière, or hot air balloon.
		The brothers were born into a family of successful paper manufacturers in Annonay, south of Lyon, France.
		There was an intense competition between the brothers and Jacques Alexandre César Charles who had already made a public demonstration of a balloon using hydrogen as its lifting gas.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Montgolfier_brothers (1589 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Joseph-Michel Montgolfier
		This balloon rose to a height of 6600 feet and came down very gently at a distance of a mile and a half.
		Joseph left to his brother the honour and duty of reporting to the Academy of Sciences at Paris and of repeating experiments at the expense of the Government.
		Balloons were constructed that carried with them a furnace for the purpose of keeping the air heated and therefore light, and two courageous physicists, Biot and Guy-Lussac made a successful ascent.
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	Montgolfier brothers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The Montgolfier brothers, Joseph Michel Montgolfier (August 26, 1740 –; June 26, 1810) and Jacques Étienne Montgolfier (January 6, 1745 –; August 2, 1799), inventors of the montgolfière hot air balloon.
		The brothers were the sons of a paper manufacturer at Annonay, south of Lyon, France.
		Hot air balloons soon were superseded by hydrogen gas balloons and did not return until the 1960s when improved the safety of the classic Montgolfier design by using ripstop nylon for the envelope and propane gas as the burner fuel.
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	Brainboost - Who invented the hot air balloon
		It was invented by the Montgolfier brothers, Joseph - Michel and Jacques - Etienne..
		Theres the Montgolfier brothers, who invented the hot - air balloon, and Alberto Santos - Dumont, who developed the dirigible; Cal Rodgers, Bessie Coleman, Jimmy Doolittle, Beryl Markham, and "Wrong Way" Corrigan are the rest of the subjects.
		Brothers Joseph and Jaques Etienne Montgolfier invented hot air ballooning in France in 1783..
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	Brüder Montgolfier
		The Montgolfiers were a big family, to say the least - but two of their sixteen children really stood out: Joseph, born in August 1740 and Etienne, five years his junior.
		He summoned his brother: "Get in a stock of taffeta and rope and you'll see one of the most astonishing sights in the whole world!" It was time for serious scientific experiments to begin.
		To the amazement of a group of spectators, the Montgolfier brothers soon managed to send a sort of giant paper bag some thiry metres (100 ft) up in the air, using gas obtained by burning a mixture of wet straw and chopped wool.
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	Webschooling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The lives of the two Montgolfier brothers seem to be a classic example of this.
		Joseph-Michel Montgolfier was born in 1740 and his brother, Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier, five years later, in the French town of Annonay.
		Such was the case of Joseph Montgolfier who first got the idea of the balloon by happening to watch a shirt drying over a fire.
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	I rode in a colorful hot air balloon on a Friday morning when I was in fourth grade as part of a reward for passing a ...
		The brothers were born in Vidalon-lez-Annonay, France to a prosperous paper manufacturer, who had nine children presenting them with examples of high virtue, honesty, economy, and piety.
		Louis XIV gave a title of nobility to the brother’s father and gave an additional pension to Joseph Michel of 1,000 pounds to the 600 pounds the Academy of Sciences gave the brothers.
		The brothers’ ability to complete the feat of launching a man into air derived from their different abilities and the ethics instilled in them when they were younger.
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	Montgolfier brothers Summary
		The sons of a successful paper manufacturer, the Montgolfier brothers were skillful mathematicians and avid experimenters (Joseph Montgolfier constructed a parachute in 1799 that successfully carried a sheep to safety).
		The brothers were soon invited to Paris where they impressed scientists and the royal family with their invention.
		The Montgolfier brothers, Joseph Michel Montgolfier (August 26, 1740 – June 26, 1810) and Jacques Étienne Montgolfier (January 6, 1745 – August 2, 1799), invented the montgolfière, or hot air balloon.
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	Hot air balloon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hot air balloons are the oldest successful human flight technology, dating back to the Montgolfier brothers' invention in Annonay, France in 1783.
		The first clearly recorded instances of balloons capable of carrying passengers used hot air to obtain buoyancy and were built by the brothers Josef and Etienne Montgolfier in Annonay, France.
		Thaddeus S. Lowe were limp silk envelopes inflated with coke gas or hydrogen, the Confederate Army did attempt to counter with a rigid Montgolfier style hot air, or "hot smoke balloon." Captain John R. Bryant inflated his rigid cotton balloon with a fire of oil-soaked pine cones.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hot_air_balloon (3339 words)

	The Montgolfier Brothers
		Joseph's brother, Etienne, attempted to make a paper bag float with hydrogen gas obtained from sulphuric acid and iron filings, but with little immediate success.
		If you put together a really good proposal you may be able to get as much as £3k from the Alumni Foundation by way of a grant and perhaps if they really wanted to support you a loan for the rest.
		King Louis XVI was not impressed by the stench of the dense smoke, but the brothers believed at the time that it was the smoke that was causing the balloon to rise.
	www.chm.bris.ac.uk /webprojects2003/hetherington/final/montgolfier_bros.html (503 words)

	Hot Air Balloon Ride in Phoenix Arizona with Aerogelic Ballooning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		To the amazement of a group of spectators, the Montgolfier brothers soon managed to send a sort of giant paper bag some thirty meters (100 ft) up in the air, using gas obtained by burning a mixture of wet straw and chopped wool.
		Soon all Paris was talking balloons and the Montgolfiers even had a competitor in the capital.
		However the first "accompanied" flight - with a sheep, a rooster and a duck on board - was organized by the Montgolfiers on September 19, from the gardens of the Palace of Versailles.
	www.aerogelicballooning.com /content.asp?pageid=10 (721 words)

	history of balloon flying
		In the mid-1770s, Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier, brothers who worked in their father’s paper factory in Annonay in southeastern France, noted that paper rose in the updrafts of the factory’s chimney, and occasionally a sheet would fold into a dome and continue rising even after leaving the immediate area of the chimney.
		They believed that the balloon was filled with a gas they called “Montgolfier gas” that had a special property they called “levity.” They did not even associate heated air with Montgolfier gas—they believed that the levity was contained in the smoke.
		Even before Etienne arrived, the French physicist Jacques Charles, mistakenly believing the Montgolfiers had used hydrogen in their ascent, hastily constructed a balloon of varnished silk, filled it with hydrogen (an expensive chemical procedure on such a large scale), and launched it from the Champs de Mars, Paris, on August 27.
	www.start-flying.com /Montgolfier.htm (943 words)

	Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Joseph Michel Montgolfier (1740-1810) and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier (1745-1799) were the sons of a paper manufacturer in Annonay, France.
		The two brothers became interested in science and in 1782 they constructed an air balloon that was lifted by lighting a cauldron of paper beneath it, and therefore heating and rarifying the air it contained.
		The brothers now moved to Paris and on 19th September, 1782, their balloon carried a sheep, a goose and a rooster.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /AVmontgolfier.htm (173 words)

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		The Montgolfier brothers were watching trash burn outside a paper factory in France in 1782 and as they watched the paper fly up, they figured that smoke would make things rise.
		Their first balloon was made of cotton and paper and lifted off when a fire was built in a gondola attached to the balloon.
		Built from paper and silk by the Montgolfier brothers, this balloon was piloted on its 22 minute flight by two noblemen from the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.
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	Montgolfier, Joseph Michel 1740-1810 and Étienne Jacques (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		French brothers whose hot-air balloon was used for the first successful human flight 21 Nov 1783.
		The Montgolfier brothers were papermakers of Annonay, near Lyon.
		Joseph Montgolfier later developed a type of parachute, a calorimeter, and a hydraulic ram and press.
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	Inventor of the Week: Archive
		The brothers were born in Annonay, France: Joseph-Michael, on August 26, 1740; Jacques-»tienne on January 6, 1745.
		At the time the brothers had believed the smoke from an onboard fire was the key to keeping the balloon aloft.
		The Montgolfier brothers were honored by the French AcadÈmie des Sciences for their work on balloons as well as a number of other accomplishments in a variety of fields.
	web.mit.edu /invent/iow/montgolfier.html (509 words)

	Airships and more!
		The best conclusions drawn by pundits used to casualty lists in that bloody year of 1783, was that the Montgolfier brothers had done a remarkable thing, but that it would go no farther and do no more than what it had already done.
		The Montgolfier brothers lit the fuse to the revolution of air travel, and the principles of flying.
		The Montgolfier brothers were not to be on the front page of aviation annals for long, however.
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	Human Flight: Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier
		Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier, French brothers, 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 later years, opened the way to exploration of the upper atmosphere.
		Joseph-Michel Montgolfier and Étienne were 2 of the 16 children of Pierre Montgolfier, whose prosperous paper factories in the small town of
	www.gymmuenchenstein.ch /stalder/klassen/hie/rev_ch/flight.htm (310 words)

	Montgolfier Brothers Online Encyclopedia Article About Montgolfier Brothers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Montgolfier Brothers Online Encyclopedia Article About Montgolfier Brothers
		Aeronautical inventors: Joseph Michel Montgolfier (1740–1810) and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier (1745–99), born in Annonay, SC France.
		In 1782 they constructed a balloon whose bag was lifted by lighting a cauldron of paper beneath it, thus heating and rarifying the air it contained.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /Cambridge/entries/002/Montgolfier-brothers.html (128 words)

	The Montgolfier Hot Air Balloon- fist to carry people
		Further investigation suggested that he was probably suffering form the effects of being trampled or sat on by the sheep.
		The moment was fast approaching for manned flight, for which the Montgolfiers created a magnificent new balloon 49 feet in diameter.
		After many experiments, the Montgolfier brothers, Joseph-Michel (1740-1810) and Jacques-Etienne (1745-1799), French inventors, built the first hot-air balloon to make an unmanned ascent lasting ten minutes to a height of 1,800 metres above the marketplace at Annonay on June 5, 1783.
	www.fiddlersgreen.net /AC/aircraft/Montgolfier-Balloon/info/info.php (1798 words)

	A balloon became the first form of flight when, in June 1783, the Montgolfier brothers of Annonay, France found a new ...
		A balloon became the first form of flight when, in June 1783, the Montgolfier brothers of Annonay, France found a new use for the paper they manufactured.
		The first manned Montgolfier balloon carried a sheep, a duck and a rooster as passengers.
		Until the Wright Brothers' Kitty Hawk flight, balloons and airships were the only types of aircraft.
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	The Montgolfier Brothers' Balloon: Joseph and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier invented the hot air balloon.
		They believed that a “Montgolfier gas” was a component of smoke, and that dense smoke was what made their balloons fly rather than hot air.
		A few months later the brothers were demonstrating their balloon before King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette at the Palace of Versailles.
		The Montgolfiers’ father had forbidden them to ever fly in their invention, but Jacques Ettienne had already disobeyed him and made a short tethered flight to almost 400 feet up.
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	Montgolfier brothers - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Only one of the brothers (which one is unknown) ever flew in a balloon himself, and then only once.
		In 1766, the British scientist Henry Cavendish had discovered hydrogen gas, by adding sulphuric acid to iron, tin, zinc shavings, and hot air balloons were superseded by hydrogen gas balloons.
		Gas baloons did not return until the 1960s, when Raven Industries improved the safety of the classic Montgolfier design by using ripstop nylon for the envelope and propane gas as the burner fuel.
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	Montgolfier - MSN Encarta
		Montgolfier Brothers, Joseph Michel (1740-1810), and Jacques Étienne (1745-99), French brothers, born in Annonay, France, who invented the first practical hot air balloon.
		Their first successful balloon test took place in 1782.
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