jacques etienne montgolfier meaning
Noun: Jacques Etienne Montgolfier
- French inventor who (with his brother Josef Michel Montgolfier) pioneered hot-air ballooning (1745-1799)
- Montgolfier
Type of: balloonist
Encyclopedia: Jacques Etienne Montgolfier
Examples
- Despite this, the sons of a local Annonay paper-maker, Joseph and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier ascended in the first hot air balloon over the town on 4 June 1783.