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Age of the Aeronaut
Since the dawn of history, from the Greek myth of Icarus to the flying machines of Leonardo da Vinci, humankind has dreamt of flight. It was not until 1783 that dream became reality when Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier invented the globe aérostatique (hot air balloon).
Aeronauts were the first voyagers and navigators of flight. Ballooning made celebrities of aeronauts, whose adventures filled newspapers, sold books, and inspired works of fiction. Flight offered a sense of freedom and a radical new frontier for exploration.
Flights of fancy did not stop with ballooning, as inventors, engineers, and scientists devised navigable airships and early planes. The search for new modes of flight continues to propel science and the imagination today.
Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond
Description des expériences de la machine aérostatique de MM. de Montgolfier
[Description of trials of the Montgolfiers’ aerostatic machine]
Paris, 1783
Gift of the Burndy Library
Inspired by watching clothes billow over an open fire and mindful of the British chemist Henry Cavendish’s discovery of hydrogen, the Montgolfier brothers experimented with fabric bags filled with heated air. Shortly after their successful ascensions with animal aeronauts,
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Montgolfier, Joseph Michel (1740–1810) and Jacques Etiènne (1745–1799)
French brothers whose hot‐air balloon, on 21 November 1783, was used for the first successful human flight.
The Montgolfier brothers were sons of a paper manufacturer from Annonay, near Lyon, France. The eldest, Joseph, was born on 26 August 1740 and although he was given to playing truant from school, he developed a strong interest in chemistry, mathematics, and natural science, even to the point of setting up his own small laboratory. Jacques, the younger by nearly five years, was born at Vidalon on 7 January 1745. He became a successful architect before joining his father's company, but, once involved, invented the first vellum paper.
Both brothers were fascinated by the views and theories on the possibility of flight by early scholars like the 14th‐century Augustinian monk Albert of Saxony and the 17th‐century Jesuit priest Father Francesco de Lana de Terzi, who designed a ‘ship of the air’ supported by evacuated copper spheres. But neither made any attempt at invention until 1782.
It was then, purely by chance, that they noticed the effects of rising smoke on particles of unburnt paper. Using this as a basis for their work, they progressed within two years from inflating paper
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Alberto Santos-Dumont
Brazilian prowess pioneer (1873–1932)
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