Jacques Etienne De Montgolfier & Joseph Michel De Montgolfier
1745-1799
French Aeronautic Inventor
1740-1810
French Aeronautic Inventor
The Montgolfier brothers were eighteenth-century French busi...
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The French inventors and industrialists Joseph Michel (1740-1810) and Jacques Étienne (1745-1799) Montgolfier were brothers who invented the hot-air balloon, an important step in the developmen...
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The sons of a successful paper manufacturer, the Montgolfier brothers were skillful mathematicians and avid experimenters (Joseph Montgolfier constructed a parachute in 1799 that successfully carried ...
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Today is Monday, June 4, the 155th day of 2007. There are 210 days left in the year.Today's highlight in history:On June 4, 1942, the Battle of Midway began during World War II.On this date:In 1783...
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