Montgolfier brothers
Hot-air balloon inventors
The Montgolfier brothers, Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne, were French papermakers who invented the hot-air balloon in 1783.
Their public demonstration at Annecy, where a balloon rose nearly a mile into the sky, launched the age of human flight.
The term Montgolfier or montgolfière still refers to hot-air balloons in French and occasionally in English.
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