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Types[edit]
Historic balloons[edit]
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Francesco Lana de Terzi
Flying ship project
c. 1670 -
Bartolomeu de Gusmão
Passarola
1709 -
Jacques Charles
Globe hydrogene balloon
1783 -
Gerli brothers
Andreani hot air balloon
1784 -
Jean-Pierre Blanchard
gas balloon with oars
1784 -
Étienne-Gaspard Robert
Minerva (project)
published in 1803/04 -
Paris 1878
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Vincenzo Lunardi
gas balloon with oars
1784 -
Lowe's gas balloon
City of New York
built in 1859 -
Jules Duruof gas balloon Le Tricolore
1874 -
Henri Giffard
Grand Ballon Captif
1878 -
1870
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1870
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1870
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Dmitri Mendeleev
Russkiy
1887 (august, 7) -
brazil
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Sociedad Sportiva Argentina
El Pampero
c. 1907 -
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Spherical gas balloon
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French
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1916
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1916
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1917
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US navy
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Inventor Blainville
Le globe volant (project)
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Balloons, 1919.
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ww1
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Swiss balloons
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1905
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1905
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1922
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1932
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1929 France
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Traversée des Pyrénées
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1937
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1935 warszawa
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1935 warszawa
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1932
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Italian
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1906
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1913
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1912
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Events[edit]
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Jacques Charles:
unmanned hydrogen balloon ascent
Champ-de-Mars
1783 (august, 27) -
Jacques Charles:
unmanned hydrogen balloon descent
Gonesse
1783 (august, 27) -
Jacques Charles:
unmanned hydrogen balloon
Champ-de-Mars
1783 (august, 27) -
Montgolfier brothers:
Montgolfière test flight
with three animals
Versailles - Vaucresson
1783 (september, 19) -
Pilâtre de Rozier:
manned hot-air balloon ascent (moored)
1783 (october, 19) -
Pilâtre de Rozier and d'Arlandes:
1st manned hot-air balloon flight
1783 (november, 21) -
Charles and Robert:
1st manned hydrogen balloon flight
1783 (december, 1) -
Charles and Robert's
balloon descent, plain of Nesle near Beaumont
1783 (december, 1) -
Coustard de Massi
Globe Aérostatique
Nantes
1784 (june, 14) -
Robert brothers:
Aerostat experience
Jardin des Tuileries
1784 (september, 19) -
Blanchard and Jefferies
1st channel crossing
Dover - Guînes
1785 (january 7) -
Artillery spotting balloon
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Russian Stratostat
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Polsh gondola
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James Wallace Black took this photograph of Boston from a tethered balloon in 1860
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Thaddeus Lowe observing the Battle of Seven Pines or Fair Oaks from his balloon "Intrepid" on the north side of the Chicahominy, 1862
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A blimp view of RNAS Pulham UK 1919