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    The Montgolfier brothers – Joseph-Michel Montgolfier (French pronunciation: [ʒozɛf miʃɛl mɔ̃ɡɔlfje]; 26 August 1740 – 26 June 1810) and Jacques-Étienne...
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  • The Montgolfier Brothers were a British indie pop-dream pop duo which featured gnac's Mark Tranmer and Lovewood drummer Roger Quigley. The group, which...
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    Laurent d'Arlandes on November 21, 1783, in a balloon created by the Montgolfier brothers. The first hot air balloon flown in the Americas was launched from...
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    buoyancy and was built by the brothers Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier in Annonay, France. These brothers came from a family of paper manufacturers...
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    for more practicable lifting gases. From the mid-18th century the Montgolfier brothers in France began experimenting with balloons. Their balloons were...
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    Château de la Muette (category Montgolfier brothers)
    on 21 November 1783, with a hot air balloon manufactured by the Montgolfier brothers lifting off from the garden of La Muette carrying Pilâtre de Rozier...
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  • label. Tranmer also recorded with Roger Quigley under the name The Montgolfier Brothers, releasing two albums. Tranmer has also released an album under his...
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    121st anniversary of the first hot air balloon test flight that the Montgolfier brothers had made on December 14, 1782. In a message to their family, Wilbur...
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    paper and related products. The company, established in 1557 by the Montgolfier family, produces papers for different uses in fine art, including watercolor...
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    but which relied on poor science. In the late 18th century the Montgolfier brothers invented the hot-air balloon and began manned flights. At almost...
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    it commemorates the first ballooning experience of the Montgolfier brothers. The Montgolfier-Canson Paper Mill (18th century) is registered as an historical...
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    ancient times. The first modern man-lifting aerostat, made by the Montgolfier brothers, was a hot air balloon. Most early balloons however were gas balloons...
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     56. ISBN 9783822812068. Gillispie, Charles Coulston (1983). The Montgolfier Brothers and the Invention of Aviation 1783-1784. pp. 15, 16 and 21. ISBN 9780691641157...
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    Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier using a Montgolfier brothers hot air balloon. Simon Schama wrote in Citizens: Montgolfier's principal scientific collaborator...
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    gear box and bearings; however, it was not developed further. 1783 Montgolfier brothers first balloon vehicle 1801 Richard Trevithick built and demonstrated...
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  • All My Bad Thoughts was the third LP from The Montgolfier Brothers. It was released through the Vespertine and Son label in 2005. "The First Rumours of...
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    flight on November 21, 1783, of a hot air balloon designed by the Montgolfier brothers. The usefulness of balloons was limited because they could only travel...
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    king John V and the Portuguese court. In the mid-18th century the Montgolfier brothers began experimenting with parachutes and balloons in France. Their...
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    His projects, including Wingdisk with Mark Tranmer of Gnac and The Montgolfier Brothers, can be viewed on his website, The Institute of Spoons. Naysmith...
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  • on Manifesto Records in 2000. In 2000, Masters teamed up with The Montgolfier Brothers' songwriter Mark Tranmer to form Wing Disk. Their first EP, Time...
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    hot air to generate buoyancy and was built by the brothers Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier in Annonay, France. After experimenting with unmanned...
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    5 miles (8.0 km) in a hot air balloon invented by the Montgolfier brothers. The Wright brothers made the first sustained, controlled and powered heavier-than-air...
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    Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier using a Montgolfier brothers hot air balloon. Simon Schama wrote in Citizens: Montgolfier's principal scientific collaborator...
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  • court of King Louis XVI did not want to wait that long before the Montgolfier brothers finally came from Annonay with their invention called Montgolfière...
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    military ballooning dates back to the late 18th century, when the Montgolfier brothers, Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne, first demonstrated the potential...
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    royal guard. The first public demonstration of a balloon by the Montgolfier brothers took place in June 1783, and was followed by an untethered flight...
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    plants in Paris, and the production of hydrogen gas enabled the Montgolfier Brothers to launch the first manned flight in a hot-air balloon on 21 November...
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    flight by the Montgolfier brothers on September 19, 1783 First manned flight Étienne Montgolfier went aloft in a tethered Montgolfier hot air balloon...
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    The Lumière brothers, French photography manufacturers, filmmakers and cinématographe motion picture inventors. The Montgolfier Brothers, French inventors...
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    use. The constellation was created to honor the invention of the Montgolfier brothers, who launched the first hot air balloon in the late eighteenth century...
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