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Montgolfier   Listen
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Montgolfier  n.  A balloon which ascends by the buoyancy of air heated by a fire; a fire balloon; so called from two brothers, Stephen and Joseph Montgolfier, of France, who first constructed and sent up a fire balloon.





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"Montgolfier" Quotes from Famous Books



... said he, "the most curious collection of engravings and caricatures extant concerning aerial manias. How people admired and scoffed at the same time at this precious discovery! We are happily no longer in the age in which Montgolfier tried to make artificial clouds with steam, or a gas having electrical properties, produced by the combustion of moist straw and ...
— A Winter Amid the Ice - and Other Thrilling Stories • Jules Verne


Words linked to "Montgolfier" :   Jacques Etienne Montgolfier, Josef Michel Montgolfier, balloonist


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