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The first clearly recorded instances of balloons capable of carrying passengers used hot air to obtain buoyancy and were built by the brothers Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier in Annonay, France. These broth
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Document Date: 2013-05-09 10:04:13


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Air Force / Union Army Balloon Corps / /

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Arpingstone / Thaddeus S. C. Lowe / Joe Kittinger / Tom Harris On / Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier / Jean-Baptiste Réveillon / Joseph-Michel Montgolfier / Louis XVI / Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier / Giroud de Villette / Joseph Kittinger / George Washington / /

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