the Invention of Balloon
The invention of the balloon was a very unique idea that triggered the technological ear on a race to change the face of the future of flights. The invention shifted mobility towards a faster level and it also gave a good advantage in the war. Since history people have been finding ways to fly and balloon was the first technology that ever took off in the air. Scientist in the past has put a lot of studies to make this invention possible and it gave birth to a new flight technology.
A French scientist named Jean Francois Pilatre de Rozier launched the first hot air balloon on September 19th, 1783 and he named it “Aerostate Reveillon”. On board there was a sheep, a duck, and a rooster and they stayed in the air for fifteen minutes before landing. This was the first balloon flight that ever took off and than after 2 months on 21st November the first manned attempt took place from Boi de Boulogne in Paris by two French brothers, Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier. The first passengers to fly in that hot air balloon were Jean Francois Piltre de Rozier and the Marquis d’Artandes. They flew for twenty-five minutes and they reached up to 3000 feet and landed in la Butte aux Cailles becoming the first humans to experience this kind of flight (Fortier, 2004). On December 1st 1783 Professor Charles and messieurs Robert embarked in a balloon filled with hydrogen. There were 300,000 spectators and one of them was Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter nine days later to Joseph Banks a British Naturalist and another letter to a Dutch plant psychologist Jan Ingenhousz about the balloon flight that took place in Paris (Remington , 1994). This new invention was going to lead the generation much forward than time, and there was no room for deadly faults, as it was well equipped, the technical and the theory it was based on was much stable and the inventors proved it was safe. The first letter that Benjamin Franklin wrote to Joseph Banks regarding the success of
A French scientist named Jean Francois Pilatre de Rozier launched the first hot air balloon on September 19th, 1783 and he named it “Aerostate Reveillon”. On board there was a sheep, a duck, and a rooster and they stayed in the air for fifteen minutes before landing. This was the first balloon flight that ever took off and than after 2 months on 21st November the first manned attempt took place from Boi de Boulogne in Paris by two French brothers, Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier. The first passengers to fly in that hot air balloon were Jean Francois Piltre de Rozier and the Marquis d’Artandes. They flew for twenty-five minutes and they reached up to 3000 feet and landed in la Butte aux Cailles becoming the first humans to experience this kind of flight (Fortier, 2004). On December 1st 1783 Professor Charles and messieurs Robert embarked in a balloon filled with hydrogen. There were 300,000 spectators and one of them was Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter nine days later to Joseph Banks a British Naturalist and another letter to a Dutch plant psychologist Jan Ingenhousz about the balloon flight that took place in Paris (Remington , 1994). This new invention was going to lead the generation much forward than time, and there was no room for deadly faults, as it was well equipped, the technical and the theory it was based on was much stable and the inventors proved it was safe. The first letter that Benjamin Franklin wrote to Joseph Banks regarding the success of
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