2006-08-18 22:11:26 · 6 answers · asked by Namila 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Joseph and Ettienne Montgolfier.
In September 19, 1783 they launched a sheep, a duck, and a rooster become the in a hot air balloon.
2006-08-18 22:54:58 · answer #1 · answered by postaljack 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hot air balloons are the oldest successful human flight technology, dating back to the Montgolfier brothers' invention in Annonay, France in 1783. The first flight carrying humans was made on November 21, 1783, in Paris by Pilâtre de Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlandes. Hot air balloons that can be propelled through the air rather than just being carried along by the wind are known as airships or, more specifically, thermal airships.
Unmanned hot air balloons are mentioned in Chinese history. Zhuge Liang in the Three Kingdoms era used airborne lanterns for military signaling. These lanterns, known as Kongming lanterns (åæç¯) .
There is also some speculation that hot air balloons were used by the Nazca Indians of Peru some 1500 years ago as a tool for designing vast drawings on the Nazca plain.
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. They were from a family of paper manufacturers who had noticed the ash rising in fires. After experimenting with unmanned balloons and flights with animals, the first balloon flight with humans on board took place on 21 November 1783. King Louis XVI had originally decreed that condemned criminals would be the first pilots, but a young physicist named Pilâtre de Rozier and the Marquis Francois d'Arlandes successfully petitioned for the honor. The first hot air balloons were basically cloth bags (sometimes lined with paper) with a smoky fire built on a grill attached to the bottom. They had a tendency to catch fire and be destroyed upon landing.
The first military use of aircraft took place during the French Revolutionary Wars, when the French used a tethered hot-air balloon to observe the movements of the Austrian army during the Battle of Fleurus (1794). Hot air ballons were also employed during the American Civil War. Though the military balloons used by the Union Army Balloon Corps under the command of Prof. Thaddeus S. C. 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. The balloon was soon captured by Union forces as the Confederate's techniques of balloon handling were not competent.
2006-08-19 05:23:13 · answer #2 · answered by kev 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
the Montgolfier brothers were the first to give hot air balloon rides to the aristocrats in France.
2006-08-19 05:41:10 · answer #3 · answered by judy_r8 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier. A long time ago.
2006-08-19 05:24:23 · answer #4 · answered by iandanielx 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-08-19 05:16:52 · answer #5 · answered by eejonesaux 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-08-19 05:17:42 · answer #6 · answered by Bobby Lashley 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋