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The simplest underlying principle behind ballooning or hot air balloons started out with a conceptual scientific discovery by Archimedes - amongst the greatest mathematicians that have ever lived.  We refer to this discovery as the basic buoyancy principle, and he probably used his discovery to conceptualize flying machines using the force of hot rapidly rising air over colder air during his time.  Albertus Magnus and Roger Bacon, the former a popular German philosopher and the latter a well-known English scientist during the 13th century, also proposed theoretical machines that can be used to fly people around the globe founded on the buoyancy principle.

On September 19, 1783, a sheep together  with a chicken and a duck rose up on a hot air balloon designed by the Montgolfier brothers while being witnessed by King Louis XVI.  The demonstration flight lasted 8 minutes, and the animals flew over France during this short span of time.  All the animals survived through the demonstration flight, and this meant that humans were then assured of safe flights on hot air balloons.

The brothers developed the first hot air balloon while working for their family's paper company.  They used manure, straw, and other materials instead of propane, but the initial design of the first hot air balloon was similar to the designs we have now.  A couple of months later, a physics professor named Pilatre de Rozier together with  infantry major the Marquis Francois d'Arlandes became part of hot air balloon history as the first people to fly on a hot air balloon.

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