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  2. History of ballooning - Wikipedia

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    The first modern-day hot air balloon to be built in the United Kingdom (UK) was the Bristol Belle in 1967. Today, hot air balloons are used primarily for recreation, and there are some 7,500 hot air balloons operating in the United States. [51] The first tethered balloon in modern times was made in France at Chantilly Castle in 1994 by ...

  3. Robert brothers - Wikipedia

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    [1] [4] They went on to build the world's first manned hydrogen balloon, and on 1 December 1783 Nicolas-Louis accompanied Jacques Charles on a 2-hour, 5-minute flight. [1] [5] [4] Their barometer and thermometer made it the first balloon flight to provide meteorological measurements of the atmosphere above the Earth's surface. [6]

  4. Balloon - Wikipedia

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    By the 18th century, people were inflating balloons of cloth or canvas with hot air and sending it aloft, the Montgolfier brothers going so far as to experiment with first animals in 1782, and then, when altitude did not kill them, human beings in 1783. The first hydrogen-filled gas balloon was flown in the 1790s.

  5. Jean-Pierre Blanchard - Wikipedia

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    Blanchard made his first successful balloon flight in Paris on 2 March 1784, in a hydrogen gas balloon launched from the Champ de Mars.The first successful manned balloon flight took place on 21 November 1783, when Pilâtre de Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlandes took off at the Palace of Versailles in a free-flying hot air balloon constructed by the Montgolfier brothers.

  6. Gas balloon - Wikipedia

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    The first launch of a gas balloon by Jacques Charles and Les Frères Robert, 27 August 1783, at the Champ de Mars, Paris. Illustration from the late 19th century. A gas balloon is a balloon that rises and floats in the air because it is filled with a gas lighter than air (such as helium or hydrogen). When not in flight, it is tethered to ...

  7. Here's why meteorologists launch weather balloons every day

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    Those balloons often reach heights of 20 miles above Earth -- or twice as high as planes typically fly. ... The first reports of synchronized releases date back to November 1870 when balloons were ...

  8. A 51-foot-long balloon of the beloved hit kids’ TV character popped during inflation Wednesday — but has made a quick recovery ready to fly during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

  9. Hot air balloon - Wikipedia

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    The hot air balloon is the first successful human-carrying flight technology. The first untethered manned hot air balloon flight in the world was performed in Paris, France, by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes on November 21, 1783, [1] in a balloon created by the Montgolfier brothers. [2]