MONTGOLFIER BROTHERS

MONTGOLFIER BROTHERS
   inventors of the balloon, who made their first ascent in Paris in 1783 in "their paper dome, filled with smoke of burnt wood, amid the shouts of congregated men"; JOSEPH (1740-1810), and ÉTIENNE (1745-1799).

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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