Montgolfier brothers biography template

  • Hot air balloon inventor

    • All Episodes

    Episode Transcript

    Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.

    Speaker 1(00:01):
    Welcome to steph you missed in history class from how
    Stuff Works dot com. Hello, and welcome to the podcast.
    I'm Holly Fry and I'm Tracy Vie Wilson. Tracy, I
    have fantastic news. What is it? This episode is not creepy,

    (00:24):
    it is not unsettling. Well, I love all that stuff.
    I mean, I legit have a very sort of morbid
    and morose taste in many things, even though I'm pretty
    giggly in day to day life. But this one has
    none of that. It's just kind of a cool moment
    in the development of human technologies. Hooray. Yeah, you're your

    (00:49):
    episodes were disproportionately jerks there for a while. Yeah, these
    people not jerks to the best of my knowledge, which
    is fantastic. So back in October, we had an episode
    about female balloonists Sophie Blanchard and the balloon omania that
    was gripping Europe at the time. But today we're going

    (01:09):
    to talk about the roots of that balloon omania. It's
    pretty close because this was a very explosive moment in
    terms of interest and excitement about air flight. Uh, and
    we're going to talk about the inventive minds of two
    brothers that really shaped balloon ing, and we actually did
    talk about them briefly in the Blanchard episode, but their
    work sort of deserves its own episode. Uh. And the

    (01:32):
    inspiration for this episode actually came from working on a
    house Stuff Works article a while back about drones that
    I was editing. UM and our art department put together
    this really fantastic interactive graphic about the ways humans have
    taken to the skies and unmanned vehicles over the years,
    and one of the earliest points on that clickable timeline
    featured Joseph Michel and Jacques Etienne Mongolfier, and so I

    (01:55):
    thought it might be fun to talk about them. Joseph
    Michel was the older of the others, born on August
    seventeen forty and Anna a France. He would go on
    to

    Talk:Montgolfier brothers

    This article is within the scope of WikiProject France, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of France on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.FranceWikipedia:WikiProject FranceTemplate:WikiProject FranceFrance
    MidThis article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

    Untitled

    Looking round numerous websites, it seems there is confusion about the date of the first manned and unmanned ascent. I think April 4, 1783 might be unmanned, June 5 manned. Also there is wide variation on the Net of the statistics associated with the events, such as balloon volume, distance, height of ascent etc. PW

    Also, the first flight across the English Channel was in a hydrogen balloon... which was invented by Jacques-Alexandre-César Charles, about whom there is no article. The hydrogen balloon was used extensively for the next 200 years, while the hot air balloon floated into obscurity until the discovery of propane. -Ryan Callahan

    Hey, wouldn't it be fun to try a hot hydrogen balloon - lotsof hydrogen heated by a propane burner!  ;)

    Funny you should mention it, Pilâtre de Rozier actually died in hybrid balloon except of course that the flame was not meant to heat the hydrogen...

    How high was high?

    In one paragraph you mention De Rozier flying at 10,000 metres over paris. That's in excess of 30,000 feet --- impossible. Lowe only made 20,000 feet 80 years later.

    IMHO we should mention Francesco Lana Terzi, the father of Aeronautics http://www.faculty.fairfield.edu/jmac/sj/scientists/lana.htmUser:Jeandré du Toit 00:24 Jan 2007

    I was working on the Dutch lemma the other day and gathered some information. I think the French Wikipedia is best informed on the subject, the German Wikipedia is also in trouble on that particular subject, but there is a book by :

    • Scham

    Montgolfier brothers

    French inventors

    For the British band, see The Montgolfier Brothers."Montgolfier" redirects here. For the crater, see Montgolfier (crater).For other people named Montgolfier, see Montgolfier (surname).

    The Montgolfier brothers

    Joseph-Michel (left) and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, late 18th century

    BornJoseph-Michel: (1740-08-26)26 August 1740, Annonay, Ardèche, France
    Jacques-Étienne: (1745-01-06)6 January 1745, Annonay, Ardèche, France
    DiedJoseph-Michel: 26 June 1810(1810-06-26) (aged 69), Balaruc-les-Bains, France
    Jacques-Étienne: 2 August 1799(1799-08-02) (aged 54), Serrières, France
    Occupation(s)Inventors, balloonists, paper manufacturers
    Known forMaking the first confirmed human flight, in a Montgolfière-style hot air balloon

    The Montgolfier brothers – Joseph-Michel Montgolfier (French:[ʒozɛfmiʃɛlmɔ̃ɡɔlfje]; 26 August 1740 – 26 June 1810) and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier ([ʒaketjɛnmɔ̃ɡɔlfje]; 6 January 1745 – 2 August 1799) – were aviation pioneers, balloonists and paper manufacturers from the communeAnnonay in Ardèche, France. They invented the Montgolfière-style hot air balloon, globe aérostatique, which launched the first confirmed piloted ascent by humans in 1783, carrying Jacques-Étienne.

    Joseph-Michel also invented the self-acting hydraulic ram (1796) and Jacques-Étienne founded the first paper-making vocational school. Together, the brothers invented a process to manufacture transparent paper.

    Early years

    Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier were born into a family of paper manufacturers. Their parents were Pierre Montgolfier (1700–1793) and Anne Duret (1701–1760), who had 16 children. Pierre Montgolfier established his eldest son, Raymond (1730–1772), as his successor.

    Joseph-Michel was the 12th child. Described as a maverick and d

  • Who are the montgolfier brothers
  • The first successful flight 1849

    • Talk:The Montgolfier Brothers

    This article must adhere to the biographies of living persons (BLP) policy, even if it is not a biography, because it contains material about living persons. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourcedmust be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libellous. If such material is repeatedly inserted, or if you have other concerns, please report the issue to this noticeboard.If you are a subject of this article, or acting on behalf of one, and you need help, please see this help page.
    		Individuals with a conflict of interest, particularly those representing the subject of the article, are strongly advised not to directly edit the article. See Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. You may request corrections or suggest content here on the Talk page for independent editors to review, or contact us if the issue is urgent.
    Edit in WikipediaRevision historyRead in Wikipedia

    Wikiwand - on

    Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.

  • History of the wright brothers