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Born 1761 • France
Died 1828 (aged 67) • France
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Joseph-Michel Montgolfier
French aviator
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Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier
French aviator
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre-François
Jean-Pierre Blanchard
French balloonist
Charles, Jacques-Alexandre-César
Jacques Charles
French physicist
Auguste Piccard, 1961
Auguste Piccard
Swiss-Belgian physicist
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Ben L. Abruzzo
American balloonist
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Maxie Anderson
American balloonist
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Jean-Felix Piccard
American chemical engineer
Charles Green, detail of an engraving by Hilaire Le Dru, 1835
Charles Green
British balloonist
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Albert W. Stevens
American aerial photographer
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, engraving by Ambroise Tardieu.
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac
French scientist
Nicéphore Niépce
Nicéphore Niépce
French inventor
Paul Painlevé.
Paul Painlevé
French prime minister and mathematician
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Jeanne Villepreux-Power
French-born naturalist
Voisin, Gabriel; Voisin, Charles
Gabriel Voisin
French aircraft manufacturer
Louis Blériot standing before his Type XI monoplane, which he flew across the English Channel on July 25, 1909.
Louis Blériot
French aviator
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Gérard Mourou
French physicist
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, lithograph.
Louis Daguerre
French painter and physicist
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Alexandre Alexeïeff
French animator
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Georges Claude
French engineer

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