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Montgolfier brothers (Joseph, 1740–1810) (Jaques, 1745–1799) first to make practical, manned balloon flight (1783). [Fr. Hist.: NCE, 1821]
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Bo Zaunders does connect some bits of flight history but concentrates on selected events, conveying just a bit of the personalities and strivings of the Montgolfier Brothers, Alberto Santos-Dumont, Cal Rodgers, Bessie Coleman, Jimmy Doolittle, Beryl Markham, and Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan. com) that has so far signed the Montgolfier Brothers, Outrageous Cherry, Arnold, El Vez, Mission Control and Selofane Seventy Four. A clear and simple account of the rise and, more or less, demise of lighter-than-air craft - balloons and dirigibles - relates their interesting history from the experiments of the Montgolfier brothers of France in 1783 through Graf Zeppelin's airships and their use in World War I up to the Hindenburg disaster in 1937. |
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