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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Jacques Etienne De Montgolfier & Joseph Michel De Montgolfier
Joseph and Jacques Michel Étienne Montgolfier
Joseph Montgolfier and Jacques Montgolfier