montgolfier in English

noun
1
family name of brothers Joseph Michel ( 1740–1810 ) and Jacques Étienne ( 1745–99 ) , French inventors and pioneers in hot-air ballooning.

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1. The Montgolfier brothers designed the first passenger-carrying hot-air balloon

2. Animals had been used in aeronautic exploration since 1783 when the Montgolfier brothers sent a sheep, a duck, and a rooster aloft in a hot air balloon to see if ground-dwelling animals can survive (the duck serving as the experimental control).

3. Play media The first balloon which carried passengers used hot air to obtain buoyancy and was built by the brothers Josef and Etienne Montgolfier in Annonay, France in 1783: the first passenger flight was 19 September 1783, carrying a sheep, a duck, and a rooster.