Montgolfière
The family Montgolfier had a paper mill in the little French place Annonay south of Lyon. The brothers Etienne and Joseph de Montgolfier experimented much with paper and discovered that paper bags filled air climb, if the air is heated up. They explained this discovery by it that certain components of the smoke had the paper bags lifted. You recognized only later that air gets a lower density and gets lighter by which by heating up.
Your discovery took her to the idea of building a big balloon made of paper. After many further experiments the brothers could introduce her invention of the public to Montgolfier on June 4th, 1783 for the first time. The balloon had a volume of about 600 m3 at that time and reached an altitude of about 1000 m. A further development of the balloon was demonstrated to the king Ludwig XVI. on September 19th. The first passengers of aeronautics were in a wicker basket which was fastened to the balloon below put: A sheep, a cock and a canard.
The brothers Montgolfier always developed her balloon further until a balloon stuck on paper and ornamented richly which had 16 m of diameter and a weight of 1600 pounds and took hold of a volume of 3000 m3 was made from canvas. A gallery from fabric-covered willow rods and a fire place which was formed of business during the flight from the gallery were under the balloon. With this balloon which then was called Montgolfière after his inventors, too, on November 21st, 1783, the first manned flight was successful. The pilots were this Saarlandes Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and the marquises' François '. You flew a distance of 10 km of approximately 25 minutes. Dream of the people started the old to fulfil himself with the invention of the balloon to be able fly.
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