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/mˈɒntɡəlfɪɐ/
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NOUN
- French inventor who (with his brother Josef Michel Montgolfier) pioneered hot-air ballooning (1745-1799)
- French inventor who (with his brother Jacques Etienne Montgolfier) pioneered hot-air ballooning (1740-1810)
How To Use Montgolfier In A Sentence
- Francesco Lana, with his 'aerial ship,' stands as one of the first great exponents of aerostatics; up to the time of the Montgolfier and A History of Aeronautics
- And all this, mind, a century before the Montgolfier brothers ever hoisted themselves aloft, so expect your time frames and tenses to be concertinaed as your credulity is stretched to its breaking point. This steampunk take on The Three Musketeers doesn't buckle my swash
- But a little time afterwards Montgolfier's discoveries quite altered the conditions under which the aerostatic art was to be pursued. Wonderful Balloon Ascents
- It features a 1/2 scale, 540 foot (164.6 m) tall replica of the Eiffel Tower out front, a two-thirds size Arc de Triomphe , the Montgolfier balloon , and a replica of La Fontaine des Mers .
- It features a 1/2 scale, 540 foot (164.6 m) tall replica of the Eiffel Tower out front, a two-thirds size Arc de Triomphe , the Montgolfier balloon , and a replica of La Fontaine des Mers .
- Among these is the _belier hydraulique_, newly invented by MONTGOLFIER, by means of which a stream of water, having a few feet of declivity, can be raised to the top of a house by a single valve or sucker, so disposed as to open, to admit the water, and shut, when it is to be raised by compression. Paris as It Was and as It Is
- Yet, it was not until 1783 that the Montgolfier brothers in France first overcame gravity in their hot-air balloon.
