When was the first hydraulic press used?
One recalls reading somewhere ( World Alamanac?) that the Montgolfier brothers- better known as Balloon inventors, devised a ( Hydraulic Ram) that was something like an inverted siphon, and at least a forerunner of the hydraulic press.This would have been in the eighteenth century, about the time of ( and it was a lengthy one, Benjamin Franklin). The Montgolfiers were French. Name has nothing to do with Golf.
