Show after hydrogen vas D sc in 1767 following immediately attel the discovery of hydrogen dr blach of edinburgh pointed out that a ves sel filled with this gas would rise in the air almost simultaneously the brothers etienne and joseph mont goiter who were paper ers as a result of reading priestley s ex perl ments relating ta different kinda of air invented the hot air or fire balloon and on june 5 1783 the farsi lr ascended at Annon nay auvergne france in august of the same year prof charles of paris sent up the first balloon filled with hydro gen or inflammable air after trav eling 15 miles this balloon was torn td pieces by the superstitious peasantry |