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- noun Plural form of
Montgolfier .
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The principle employed by the Montgolfiers was the expansion of air by heat, thus causing it to rise by relative lightness.
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When he later talks about the Montgolfiers' ballooning experiments, he thinks about how to apply this – he thinks you might put ice in a balloon and raise it up into the skies and the ice would keep cool.
Royal Society publishes tales of oil on troubled waters and the first roll-ups 2011
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The Montgolfiers 'hot-air contraption was almost instantly improved.
Nature Was The Teacher By Roger Kimball 2009
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The Montgolfiers were successful paper manufacturers but two of them were also scientific inventors.
Archive 2007-02-01 Richard 2007
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Lots of people there, most of whom I talked only briefly with - Ed Pinsent, Glenn Dakin yay, love his stuff, Woodrow, various of the Montgolfiers.
To London to Paul's book launch jinty 2006
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In the pub afterwards - Roger Sabin and Guy Lawley (aforementioned Montgolfiers), Mark Stafford, James De Carteret (yes, the comics radio show is still happening, but not at the time originally thought - more info later), Gary Northfield, David Baillie, and a woman whose name I didn't catch but who had done a PhD on Franco-Belgian comics in the 1960s and 1970s - cool.
To London to Paul's book launch jinty 2006
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Notwithstanding the superior power of Professor Charles 'gas balloon, the Montgolfiers stuck to their hot air,' for, 'said they,' see how much cheaper it is, and how much more quickly the balloon can be inflated -- about ten minutes against three days. '
Chatterbox, 1905. Various
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Some of those who had been present at the great experiment wrote an account of it to their friends in Paris, who at once began to make arrangements for inviting the Montgolfiers to send up another balloon from the capital.
Chatterbox, 1905. Various
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Attempts to do this were made long before the Montgolfiers sent up their paper bag at Annonay, and beyond the fact that machines have been invented which can lift themselves into the sky, very little progress has been really made.
Chatterbox, 1905. Various
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Montgolfiers use is twice as light as the atmosphere.
Chatterbox, 1905. Various
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