1From Benjamin Franklin to Samuel Cooper, 24 February 1769 (Franklin Papers)
...was an ardent balloonist. After his Channel crossing by balloon in Jan., 1785, he dined...
...first man (with his companion, Blanchard) to fly—by balloon—across the English Channel. See 1
3To Benjamin Franklin from William Strahan, 14 July 1778 (Franklin Papers)
...by a small sketch that looks like a half-inflated balloon.
4To Benjamin Franklin from Le Roux, 25 February 1779 (Franklin Papers)
...events is that his May letter was a trial balloon; when it got no response he engineered an...
5From Benjamin Franklin to the Royal Academy of Brussels, [after 19 May 1780] (Franklin Papers)
...“inflammable air” while describing the French balloon craze. He enclosed a copy of this...
6To Benjamin Franklin from Jean-Pierre Blanchard, [c. April 1782] (Franklin Papers)
...with the American John Jeffries, the first balloon crossing of the English Channel and by...
7Bettally & Noseda to William Temple Franklin, 1 October 1782 (Franklin Papers)
...(1754–1786), whose name is more commonly associated with balloon flights, see the
8To Benjamin Franklin from Jean-Baptiste Le Roy: Four Letters, [1783?] (Franklin Papers)
...written in the second half of 1783, when private balloon experiments became fashionable and...
9To Benjamin Franklin from Nicolas Richard and Other Composers of Verse, 2 March 1783 (Franklin Papers)
...p. 234. Hoeufft also wrote a poem about balloons in 1783; this pamphlet was published in Paris...
10From Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Banks, 27 July 1783 (Franklin Papers)
The idea for the hot-air balloon came from Joseph Montgolfier, a scion of the great... ...balloons...
11To Benjamin Franklin from Jean-Baptiste Le Roy, [27 July 1783] (Franklin Papers)
...man who had performed an experiment with a balloon 35 feet in diameter. See the annotation...
12[August 1783] (Adams Papers)
...and Jacques Etienne, had made the first successful unmanned balloon flight on 5 June 1783...
13From Benjamin Franklin to Horace-Bénédict de Saussure, 23 August 1783 (Franklin Papers)
...in 1776. Fascinated by the scientific potential of balloons, he went to Lyon in January, 1784...
14To Benjamin Franklin from Joseph Banks, 25 August 1783 (Franklin Papers)
Sir Joseph Banks Balloons
&c...” he reported. Charles’s balloon was being made “upon...
15“Une Abonnée,” [after 27 August 1783] (Franklin Papers)
...and least expensive gas to fill a balloon. In late July, when Montgolfier announced...
16Aug. 27th. (Adams Papers)
...and Jacques Etienne, had made the first successful unmanned balloon flight on 5 June 1783...
17Aug. 28th. Thursday. (Adams Papers)
..., who, with the Montgolfiers, tested a hydrogen-filled balloon at Champ de Mars on 2 Aug. and...
18From Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Banks, 30 August[–2 September 1783] (Franklin Papers)
...Académie des sciences, working on his new balloon, and pursuing his business interests as...
19To Benjamin Franklin from the Duc and Duchesse de Crillon et de Mahon, [before 1 October 1783] (Franklin Papers)
...highlight of the evening was the launch of a small balloon, which
20From Benjamin Franklin to Ingenhousz, 2 September 1783 (Franklin Papers)
...of the peasants at Gonesse, where the balloon landed. “Allarme générale des habitants de...
21John Adams to Abigail Adams, 7 September 1783 (Adams Papers)
...Etienne Montgolfier developed the first hot-air balloons in 1782–1783; the first public...balloon
22To Benjamin Franklin from Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier, 11 September 1783 (Franklin Papers)
...members of the Académie des sciences a preview of the balloon he had
constructed.
23From John Jay to Robert Morris, 12 September 1783 (Jay Papers)
...account of the unmanned hot air balloon demonstration held by Joseph Michel Montgolfier (1740...
24From John Jay to Robert R. Livingston, 12 September 1783 (Jay Papers)
...27 Aug., when his fallen unmanned hydrogen balloon was attacked by peasants with pitchforks...
On the prints of a balloon ascension, see
26From Benjamin Franklin to Richard Price, 16 September 1783 (Franklin Papers)
...Conversation here at present turns upon the Balloons fill’d with light inflammable Air; and...
27Remarks concerning the Savages of North America, [before 7 January 1784] (Franklin Papers)
...of the draft, depicting a manned hot-air balloon tethered to the ground with ropes. If...
28To Benjamin Franklin from Jacques-Joseph Ducarne de Blangy, 3 October 1783 (Franklin Papers)
...letter providing details about the potential applications of the balloon. If attached to...
29From Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Banks, 8 October 1783 (Franklin Papers)
...had marred the demonstration of his hotair balloon at the Réveillon manufactory on...
30To John Jay from Peter Jay Munro, 16 October 1783 (Jay Papers)
The first manned balloon ascension occurred on 15 Oct. 1783, when Jean-François... ...balloon to a...
31To Benjamin Franklin from Antoine-Alexis-François Cadet de Vaux, 19 October 1783 (Franklin Papers)
Etienne Montgolfier staged a series of manned balloon experiments—on Oct. 15, 17, and 19—at...
32To Benjamin Franklin from Jean-Baptiste Le Roy, [19 October 1783?] (Franklin Papers)
...the six occasions on which Montgolfier launched balloons in Paris, three of them—the...
33To Benjamin Franklin from Jean-Baptiste Le Roy, [21 October 1783] (Franklin Papers)
...Montgolfier’s test flights of his balloon in Réveillon’s courtyard, which were......balloon...
34To Benjamin Franklin from Jean-Baptiste Le Roy, [26 October 1783?] (Franklin Papers)
Brandy, Balloons, & Lamps: Ami Argand, 1750–1803Brandy, Balloons, & Lamps,
35To Benjamin Franklin from William Vaughan, 31 October 1783 (Franklin Papers)
...yesterday communicated your description of the Air Balloons to the Club who hope one day...
36To Benjamin Franklin from Joseph Banks, 7 November 1783 (Franklin Papers)
...be referring to the Nov. 4 release of a balloon, five feet in diameter, by the Italians Count...
37To Benjamin Franklin from Thomas Collinson, 12 November 1783 (Franklin Papers)
...your Letter to Sr Jos. Banks on the Air Balloons—which a Friend of mine had the pleasure of...
38Franklin et al.: Procès-verbal of Montgolfier Balloon Experiment, 21 November 1783 (Franklin Papers)
of Montgolfier Balloon
39From Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Banks, November 22–25, 1783 (Franklin Papers)
This Balloon was larger than that which went up from Versailles and... ...in the Balloon, swell’d...
40To John Jay from Sarah Livingston Jay, 27 November 1783 (Jay Papers)
...Arlandes (1742–1809) piloted a hot air Montgolfier balloon to a height of three thousand feet,...
41To John Jay from Robert Morris, 27 November 1783 (Jay Papers)
...prints of the Rise & fall of the Balloon Pray cannot they contrive to send Passengers with...
42To Benjamin Franklin from Joseph Banks, 28 November 1783 (Franklin Papers)
After exhibiting their balloon at the Lyceum in the Strand, Francesco Zambeccari and... ...balloon...
43To Benjamin Franklin from Henry Laurens, 28 November 1783 (Franklin Papers)
The balloon of Count Francesco Zambeccari and Michael Biaggini, for which...
44To John Jay from Robert R. Livingston, 29 November 1783 (Jay Papers)
On the balloon prints, see JJ
45From Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Banks, 30 November 1783 (Franklin Papers)
...by the Courier, M. Faujas’s Book upon the Balloons, which I hope you have receiv’d. ...Balloon...
46From Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Banks, 1[–2] December 1783 (Franklin Papers)
...d going into the Garden of the Tuilleries where the Balloon was plac’d, not knowing how long I...
47From Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Banks, 15 December 1783 (Franklin Papers)
...my Correspondence on the Subject of the Balloons, yet I cannot forbear sending you Mr...
48From Benjamin Franklin to Ingenhousz, 24 December 1783 (Franklin Papers)
’s first letter to Banks about balloons.
49To Benjamin Franklin from ——— Creuzé, 24 December 1783 (Franklin Papers)
...pipes and a steering rudder to direct the motion of balloons in a letter dated Jan. 4, 1784 (
50To George Washington from Antoine-Jean-Louis Le Bègue de Presle Duportail, 24 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
air balloon