6 Dirigible Balloons The general type of lighter-than-air ma- … made larger, until, at their first public exhi- Fig. 3. Montgolfier Balloon bition on June 5, 1783, the bag had become over 35 feet in diameter. On this occasion, it rose to a height of between 900 and 1,000 feet, but the hot air was gradually escaping, and at the end of ten minutes the balloon…
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