French inventor, older of the 18th-century Montgolfier brothers
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L'Invention des globes aérostatiques Hommage a MM. de Montgolfier, par M. le Comte D'Imbert de la Platiere. Lieutenant-colonel de troupes, Chevalier de L'Ordre chapitral & militaire de L'Ancienne noblesse d' empire, des Académies de L' Ancienne noblesse d' Empire, des Académies de Rome, &c.
La Platière, Sulpice Imbert Comte de.Date: 1784- Books
Tentamen medicum de aerostatum usu medicinae applicando. Quod, in Augustissimo Ludoviceo Medico Monspeliensi, publicis subjiciebat disputationibus, die mensis Martii, anni 1784, auctor, Ludovicus Leulier Duché ... pro primâ apollinari laureâ consequendâ.
Leulier Duché, LudovicusDate: 1784- Pictures
A balloon ascent by the Montgolfier brothers at Versailles in 1783 watched by a huge crowd. Coloured etching.
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The Air balloon: or a treatise on the aerostatic globe, lately invented by the celebrated Mons. Montgolfier of Paris . Shewing, first-those properties of air, which influence an air balloon. 2dly-the particular construction and methods of filling it. 3dly-some of the great variety of probable uses which this important discovery may be applied to for the benefit of mankind. The whole rendered familiar to the plainest capacity.
Date: 1783