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Definition of Montgolfier

1. Noun. French inventor who (with his brother Josef Michel Montgolfier) pioneered hot-air ballooning (1745-1799).

2. Noun. French inventor who (with his brother Jacques Etienne Montgolfier) pioneered hot-air ballooning (1740-1810).

Definition of Montgolfier

1. n. A balloon which ascends by the buoyancy of air heated by a fire; a fire balloon; -- so called from two brothers, Stephen and Joseph Montgolfier, of France, who first constructed and sent up a fire balloon.

Definition of Montgolfier

1. Noun. A hot-air balloon. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Montgolfier

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Literary usage of Montgolfier

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The National Magazine by Abel Stevens, James Floy (1853)
"A curious anecdote is related of Joseph montgolfier. During his investigations, he had frequent intercourse with the printers of Avignon for publishing his ..."

2. The Correspondence of the Right Honourable Sir John Sinclair, Bart.: With by John Sinclair (1831)
"The most distinguished was Joseph montgolfier, the elder and the most ... The merit of the discovery, montgolfier always said, was principally owing to Dr ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"He foresaw nearly all the forms, parachute and montgolfier. but by boldly adhering to the "heavier than air'1 principle he constructed the first artificial ..."

4. People's Book of Biography: Or, Short Lives of the Most Interesting Persons by James Parton (1868)
"THE BROTHERS montgolfier. INVENTORS OF THE BALLOON. ... in the South of France, a venerable man named montgolfier, owner of a large paper mill, ..."

5. A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts by William Nicholson (1811)
"... i» said to have been communicated in conversation by Mr. de montgolfier. This declaration of Messrs. ..."

6. Stories of Inventors and Discoverers in Science and the Useful Arts: A Book by John Timbs (1860)
"Meanwhile Joseph montgolfier arrived in Paris, where he exhibited one of his balloons on the 12th of September; and on the 19th, in front of the Palace- of ..."

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