One day in 1777 Josefh Montgolfier was relaxing in front of the
fire and he noticed that one
of his shirts had started to float upwarda. Joseph started thying to think of a craft that would be able to capture
smoke and lift people off the ground.
On 19th
September 1783 he with his brother
Jacques presented their first hot-air ballon which was
made from paper and clot. As this was its first trip the
Montgolfier brothers were too nervous.So they put a sheep a duck and a chicken in the
basket that hung below the balloon for the two-mile journey.
The
new invention was a great success and the animals landed safe and
sound.A huge crowd including some members of the French Royal Family
gathered to watch the ballon floathing high in the sky. On 21st of november 1783 the balloon reached heights of around 150 metres as it
floated aver the Paris rooftops starting a long a long tradition of
hot-air ballooning.