Montgolfier, seemed so little fitted to support them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonderful Balloon Ascents] Reference

The science of Montgolfier, the practical art of Professor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonderful Balloon Ascents] Reference

The balloon was invented by a Frenchman named Montgolfier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thrilling Stories Of The Ocean From Authentic Accounts Of Modern Voyagers And Travellers; Designed For The Entertainment And Instruction Of Young People] Reference

“Charles Montgolfier something something,” said Myrret.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dragon’s Apprentice] Reference

Montgolfier was not the ascent of any human being in the balloon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonderful Balloon Ascents] Reference

It was in the same year that the Montgolfier brothers of Annonay, near.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marvels of Modern Science] Reference

When in 1783 the brothers Montgolfier ascended a mile above the earth in.    From Wordnik.com.  [By the Christmas Fire] Reference

He suggested a number of alterations, which Montgolfier adopted at once.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonderful Balloon Ascents] Reference

The young Montgolfier had arrived in Paris prior to the experiment of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonderful Balloon Ascents] Reference

"Who is this Montgolfier with his balloons?" the Princess asked languidly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference

Louis XVI financed on its own the brothers Montgolfier pioneers of aviation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-12-23] Reference

Montgolfier invente the hot air balloon - looks like the "t" got elided in the Italian.    From Wordnik.com.  [La Mongolfiera] Reference

The king had offered two criminals as crew, but Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier declined.    From Wordnik.com.  [Liftoff At The Court Of Versailles] Reference

SAGAL: You're going to go for the Montgolfier brothers sending animals up in their balloon?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Craig Finn Of 'The Hold Steady' Plays Not My Job] Reference

There are aeronauts, however, who prefer a journey in a Montgolfier to one in a gas-balloon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonderful Balloon Ascents] Reference

Immediately the Comte de Laurencin pressed Montgolfier to allow him to go up in the new machine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonderful Balloon Ascents] Reference

"The first ascent was made by Montgolfier in 1782, and he was followed by Rosiers and d'Arlandes.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Willis the Pilot] Reference

My companion was animated with the same sentiments, and more than once we cried out, 'Vive Montgolfier!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonderful Balloon Ascents] Reference

Montgolfier was only too glad of the opportunity -- refused up to this time by the king -- of going up himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonderful Balloon Ascents] Reference

Montgolfier had dreamed of the employment of oars as a means of guidance, but had ultimately rejected the idea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonderful Balloon Ascents] Reference

The curtain had risen when M. and Madame de Flesselles entered their box, accompanied by Montgolfier and Roziers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonderful Balloon Ascents] Reference

"Precisely, Madame -- the coiffure Montgolfier," Germain at once replied, for he had looked into hat fashions lately.    From Wordnik.com.  [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference

"By the way, Montgolfier has sent up a new balloon which has carried four passengers," went on the volatile d'Estaing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference

Montgolfier, of whom we have spoken, fell to wondering, as he sat by the fire, how the great task could be accomplished.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference

Montgolfier; each party extolled its hero, and did everything possible to detract from the merits of the rival inventor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonderful Balloon Ascents] Reference

Montgolfier, and we may all become long-range projectiles; but even this age of hurry will contentedly wait a little for that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876] Reference

The brothers Montgolfier then made a very large and strong balloon, with which they wished to bring their discovery before the public.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonderful Balloon Ascents] Reference

Never had the brothers Montgolfier had a busier morning; never had the good people of Annonay seen such excitement in their quiet village.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference

"Balloon" in this sense was first used in 1783 in connexion with the invention of the brothers Montgolfier, but the word was in earlier use.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

The brothers Montgolfier were possessed with the desire to make.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essai sur l'imagination créatrice. English] Reference

Franklin wrote a description of the Montgolfier balloon to Sir Joseph.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Age of Invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest] Reference

The amount of public interest excited by the æronautical exploits of Montgolfier and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen] Reference

The balloon used was a Montgolfier, or fire balloon, and, in spite of its ready inflation, MM.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dominion of the Air; the story of aerial navigation] Reference

Nadar, Louis Godard, and Montgolfier, the two first against the ground, the third into the water.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dominion of the Air; the story of aerial navigation] Reference

The brothers Montgolfier were men of that vigorous stamp who act promptly on receiving their convictions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Up in the Clouds Balloon Voyages] Reference

Tytler's ascent, however, was almost a failure, by his employing the dangerous and unmanageable Montgolfier principle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Up in the Clouds Balloon Voyages] Reference

Before the Wright brothers, there were the Montgolfier brothers and they had the idea of flight a hundred years earlier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Feeds4all documents in category 'SEO'] Reference

To keep the impatient populace quiet, therefore, during the tedious operation, Montgolfier sent up one of his fire-balloons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Up in the Clouds Balloon Voyages] Reference

The great success of the Montgolfier balloons naturally threw the efforts of Monsieur Charles and the brothers Robert into the shade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Up in the Clouds Balloon Voyages] Reference