1. Together, the Montgolfier brothers invented a process to manufacture transparent paper.
10 Facts About Montgolfier brothers
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Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier brothers were born into a family of paper manufacturers.
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Pierre Montgolfier brothers established his eldest son, Raymond, as his successor.
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Montgolfier brothers succeeded in incorporating the latest Dutch innovations of the day into the family mills.
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Montgolfier brothers first contemplated building machines when he observed laundry drying over a fire incidentally form pockets that billowed upwards.
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Montgolfier brothers believed that the smoke itself was the buoyant part and contained within it a special gas, which he called "Montgolfier Gas", with a special property he called levity, which is why he preferred smoldering fuel.
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Montgolfier brothers crumpled and lit some paper under the bottom of the box.
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In 1796, Joseph Michel Montgolfier brothers invented the first self-acting hydraulic ram, a water pump to raise water for his paper mill at Voiron.
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In 1799, Etienne de Montgolfier brothers died on the way from Lyon to Annonay.
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Montgolfier brothers became Montgolfier et Canson in 1801, then Canson-Montgolfier in 1807.