{"id":365,"date":"2011-06-05T09:12:33","date_gmt":"2011-06-05T07:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/?p=365"},"modified":"2024-06-04T09:12:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T07:12:21","slug":"first-public-demonstrations-of-the-hot-air-balloon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/2011\/06\/05\/first-public-demonstrations-of-the-hot-air-balloon\/","title":{"rendered":"First public demonstrations of the hot air balloon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"137117dde994ef920366dbf34e4e7cff\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-2865779868887008\";\r\n\/* Android box *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"1345074415\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 336;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 280;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Hot air balloon first public demonstration in Annonay, 1783-06-04\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/6\/6b\/Early_flight_02562u_(2).jpg\/150px-Early_flight_02562u_(2).jpg\" alt=\"Hot air balloon first public demonstration in Annonay, 1783-06-04\" width=\"150\" height=\"219\" \/>The Montgolfier brothers <em>&#8211; Joseph-Michel Montgolfier (26 August 1740 \u2013 26 June 1810) and Jacques-\u00c9tienne Montgolfier (6 January 1745 \u2013 2 August 1799) &#8211;<\/em> decided to make a public demonstration of a balloon in order to establish their claim to its invention. They constructed a globe-shaped balloon of sackcloth with three thin layers of paper inside. The envelope could contain nearly 790 m\u00b3 (28,000 cubic feet) of air and weighed 225 kg (500 lb). It was constructed of four pieces (the dome and three lateral bands) and held together by 1,800 buttons. A reinforcing fish net of cord covered the outside of the envelope.<\/p>\n<p>On 4 June 1783, they flew this craft as their first public demonstration at Annonay in front of a group of dignitaries from the Etats particulars. Its flight covered 2 km (1.2 mi), lasted 10 minutes, and had an estimated altitude of 1,600-2,000 m (5,200-6,600 ft).<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0--><!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Montgolfier brothers &#8211; Joseph-Michel Montgolfier (26 August 1740 \u2013 26 June 1810) and Jacques-\u00c9tienne Montgolfier (6 January 1745 \u2013 2 August 1799) &#8211; decided to make a public demonstration of a balloon in order to establish their claim to its invention. They constructed a globe-shaped balloon of sackcloth with three thin layers of paper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3066,"href":"https:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions\/3066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}