Who Invented the Hot Air Balloon?

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Even in this day and age of airplanes, space shuttles and drones, hot air balloons still capture the imagination. Majestic, large, and often colorful, there’s something truly incredible about watching a hot-air balloon in flight. And it was with hot air balloons that man first ventured into the heavens. Despite this, while most can name the inventors of the first airplane to achieve sustained flight, few, outside of those who read the beginning of this article, have any idea who invented the first hot air balloon capable of carrying a human. In order to rectify that information gap and more, here’s the high-flying history of hot-air balloons.

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[A_Dopamine_Molecule]

I like how this channel answers questions that I never knew I wanted answers to.

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[missakay]

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[kenxclout]

I was going to invest in a hot air




but it's a bit up in the air at the moment

[LeoStaley]

Yes, I think it would have been an exaggeration to say the duck was astonished. Probably thinking, ooh how impressive, lol, but can you do it with wings?

[francoislacombe]

Just a little detail. It was king Louis XIV who was called the Sun King, not Louis XVI

[aadf]

You are correct that Per Linstrand and Richard Branson were the first to fly a hot-air balloon across the Atlantic in 1987 and the Pacific in 1991. However, you have some confusion about the first around-the-world balloon flights.

Steve Fossett was not the first to fly a balloon around the world. He was the first to fly solo, but the first flight in a balloon around the world was made in March 1999 by Bertrand Piccard (the same pilot of Solar Impulse) and Brian Jones in the Breitling Orbiter 3. Yet, none of these around-the-world flights were made by hot-air balloon. Instead they were a combined hot-air and gas balloon known as a Rozier balloon named after Pilatre de Rozier who was the first fatality in ballooning while flying the same type balloon which holds his name. To date, no hot-air balloon has flown around the world.

[MsBlancaZ]

The Shenandoah crashed near my hometown. It's weird hearing about something so familiar on a channel I watch every night. Keep up all the great videos!

[kenxclout]

Simon I recently just got fired at the calendar factory for taking days off, but I just got a job working with hot air balloons.




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[jonasjiller]

In French, a "hot air balloon" is called a "mongolfière", after the inventors with the same last name. Therefore, French speakers DO remember who first came up with this mode of transport.

[LisaBowers]

_Sooo, _ a duck, a rooster and a sheep get into a hotair balloon...

Sounds like the makings of a good joke.

[KimberlyGreen]

Bonus fact: The highest skydive ever performed was from a balloon as well.

[chrisstone]

i already know who made the hot air balloon from the documentary "Avatar: the last Airbender" his name is sokka and he is from the water tribe...

[michaeljohnston]

Great video. I just got into this channel and I love it, love how it talked about stuff all over the world.

[scronyx]

I already knew all of this as I have watched Monty Pythons: The golden age of ballooning.

[sirsavagethest]

Bald british guys have the answers to every question, cheers lad.

[Sam_on_YouTube]

The animals were selected because they are comfortable at different altitudes. Ducks fly high, roosters fly low, and sheep don't fly at all. It was a poorly thought through experimental design.

[MmeHyraelle]

In french this is more common knowledge, as hot air ballon is called a montgolfière.

[nomadbynature]

It can't be proven but there's some discussion that the people who made the Nazca lines may have had hot air balloons. It's said they certainly had the ability but there's no evidence they actually did. Though it does give a feasible reason for such large ground based art work.

[ladyofthemasque]

"Man first ventured into the heavens"...in Ancient China, where prisoners were given the option of testing kites capable of lifting a human into the air. If they survived, they were set free. (IF they survived.) That line should be "Man first ventured into the heavens in balloons."

[schristy]

The 5th Dimension. Up, Up and Away and away
My beautiful, my beautiful balloon.