| Show I EARLY BALLOONING i Chicago News es esIn In 1767 liGi following immediately after j the discovery of oC hydrogen Dr Dlo Black Blaek j of Edinburgh pointed out that a yes es essel sel filled with this gas would rise in the theair theair j jair air Almost simultaneously the broth brothers ers ens Etienne and Joseph Montgolfier who were paper pap r manufacturers as a result of reading Experiments Experiments ments Relating to Different Kinds of oC Air Invented the or fire bal balloon balloon I loon and on June 5 1783 the first Mont Montgolfier I ascended at Annonay Auvergne France In August of ot the same year i Professor ProCessor Charles of Paris sent up the first balloon filled with hydrogen or inflammable air After Arter traveling fiC fifteen fifteen teen miles this balloon was torn to pieces by the superstitious peasantry I Later at Versailles in Ip the presence of oC Louis XVI Joseph Montgolfier sent up upa i ia a fire balloon carrying a sleep a cock and a duck but the first human being i ito I to ascend appears to have been the fa Ia famous mou de Rozier who went up from a garden arden in the Faubourg St Antoine Louis had decided to make the first experiments with criminals but Rozier petitioned the king that he might go asking why so great an honor should be deputed to a 3 criminal The he first ascent in Great Britain was made b by James Tyler from Crom Comely Comel i Gardens Edinburgh In 1781 On Sept 15 of oC the same year ear the first ascent I was made In Jn England by a Venetian i Vincenzo Lunardi Oi Oil Jan 7 i 1783 the I English channel was first crossed by occupants of a balloon when Blanch Blanchard Blanchard ard and Dr Jeffries tho the American traveled from Dover to a forest near i Calais |
