Joseph-Michel Montgolfier and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier: References & Edit History
Additional Reading
For biographical information on the family, see Léon Rostaing, La Famille de Montgolfier, ses alliances, ses descendants (1910, reprinted 1960); and the well-illustrated Comte Henry de La Vaulx and Paul Tissandier, Joseph et Étienne de Montgolfier (1926). The technical problems encountered by the Montgolfiers and those who followed them are discussed by Gaston Tissandier in Histoire des ballons et des aéronautes célèbres, 2 vol. (1887–89). For a more recent study, see the illustrated Charles Dollfus and Henri Bouché, Histoire de l’aéronautique (1932).
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| Article structure updated. | Jun 26, 2026 | ||
| Article updated and revised. | Oct 15, 2025 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Mar 27, 2024 | ||
| Links added. | Jun 01, 2023 | ||
| Invalidated site: "Lighter than air: the Montgolfier brothers". | Feb 06, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Biography of Joseph Michel Montgolfier and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier. | Aug 09, 2011 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Apr 21, 2008 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Feb 07, 2008 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | May 27, 1999 |
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