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What Accident Led to the Invention of the First Hot-Air Balloon?

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What Accident Led to the Invention of the First Hot-Air Balloon?

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Madame Jacques Montgolfier, the wife of a French paper manufacturer, had washed one of her petticoats and hung it on a line over a small fire to dry. As her amazed husband watched, heat from the fire inflated the petticoat and caused it to rise. This led Jacques and his brother, Joseph, to begin experimenting with balloons. Thei