Stories of inventors and discoverers in science and the useful arts. A book for old and young (1860)
Timbs, John, 1801-1875 · New York, Harper & Brothers · leaf 107
eri-ment were made at Paris previously to the time whenmen trusted themselves to this conveyance. The firstaerial voyagers were a sheep, a cock, and a duck, whowere sent up on September 19, and came down safe.Human life was not, however, trusted to a balloon till the 102 THE FIRST AERONAUTS.… … De Roziers Balloon. The first persons who offered to leave the earth entire-ly were the Marquis dArlandes and M. de Rozier, in aMontgolfier^ from the Chateau de la Muette, near Passy,November 21, 1783. Their balloon, magnificently dec-orated, was terminated below by a circular gallery forthe…
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