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montgolfier
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Montgolfier is a worn lunar impact crater that is located in the northern hemisphere of the Moon 's far side . To the east-northeast is the crater Paraskevopoulos , and southwest of Montgolfier lies Schneller . The entire southern rim of this crater has ...
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Montgolfier \Mont`gol"fier\, n. A balloon which ascends by the buoyancy of air heated by a fire; a fire balloon; -- so called from two brothers, Stephen and Joseph Montgolfier, of France, who first constructed and sent up a fire balloon.
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Then man burst his bidimensional limits, and invaded the third dimension, soaring with Montgolfier into the clouds, and sinking with a diving bell into the purple treasure-caves of the waters.
Most of the throng had traveled from Paris, where Etienne Montgolfier had already become a celebrity.
While cordons of soldiers were placed so as to protect the balloon itself and Montgolfier, no serious attempt was made to restrain numbers or to order them in the neat, ordained spaces generally required by old regime regula-tions.
The Montgolfier brothers were paper manufacturers from the Vivarais in southeast France.
More dramatically, an enormous, and suddenly horrified crowd on the plaine des Bro-teaux beside the Rhone near Lyon saw the soon-to-be-doomed Pilatre de Rozier, Montgolfier and six passengers, including the son of the Prince de Ligne, descend vertically amidst smoke and flames.
So cast adrift, he, Montgolfier, and all men, might hear the unmeasured breathing of God and the cathedral tread of eternity.
Fevvers yawned with prodigious energy, opening up a crimson maw the size of that of a basking shark, taking in enough air to lift a Montgolfier, and then she stretched herself suddenly and hugely, extending every muscle as a cat does, until it seemed she intended to fill up all the mirror, all the room with her bulk.
The Egyptians certainly could have built a manned balloon 3000 years ago, yet the idea of using hot air to fly did not arise until the Montgolfier Brothers began their experiments in late 18th Century France.
They particularly liked the Montgolfier balloon, with its painted decorations still bright and fresh, and its panels fastened together with buttons and buttonholes.
Cyrano was anticipating the hot air balloons of Joseph and Jacque Montgolfier by almost one hundred and fifty years.
First of all Montgolfier, then balloonists who used gas and not hot air, then, at last, your Count Zeppelin.
Great rivals of the Montgolfiers in trying to construct an aerostat that will-what are you doing?
Florian gave a florid speech, with many praiseful references to France's own Montgolfier inventors of the aérostat, and many compliments to the daring of the Montgolfiers' successors, Messieurs Roulette and Nadar.