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1754, Mar 301772-17851785, Jun 15
a French chemistry and physics teacher, and one of the first pioneers of aviation. He and the Marquis d'Arlandes made the first manned free balloon flight on 21 November 1783, in a Montgolfier balloon. He later died when his balloon crashed near Wimereux in the Pas-de-Calais during an attempt to fly across the English Channel. He and his companion, Pierre Romain, thus became the first known fatalities in an air crash. He also risked himself while researching the flammability of hydrogen.
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10/15/1783-Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier makes captive-balloon ascent
11/21/1783-Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier and Marquis Francois Laurent d'Arlandes make first free balloon flight
06/15/1785-Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier and Pierre Romain, French balloonists, die in world's first fatal aviation accident
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Francois Laurent d'Arlandes
...soldier and a pioneer of hot air ballooning. He and Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier made the first manned free balloon flight on 21...
Pierre Romain
...French lawyer , physicist, chemist and aeronaut. He met Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier in August 1784 and began studying a balloon...
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Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier1754, Mar 301772
 
17851785, Jun 15
James Ferguson [3]1710, Apr 251720
 
17731776, Nov 17
  a Scottish astronomer, instrument and globe maker. It is, as the inventor and improver of astron...
Benjamin Franklin1705, Jan 61718
 
17891790, Apr 17
 one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A renowned polymath, Franklin was a leading aut...
Ivan Fyodorovich Lisitsynunknown1770
 
1789unknown
  one of the two sons of Fyodor Lisitsyn. From their childhood they were engaged in metalworking a...
Nazar Fyodorovich Lisitsynunknown1770
 
1789unknown
  one of the two sons of Fyodor Lisitsyn. From their childhood they were engaged in metalworking a...
John Fitch1743, Jan 211780
 
17991798, Jul 2
 an American inventor, clockmaker, entrepreneur and engineer. He was most famous for operating the...
Thomas Paine [2]1736, Jan 291761
 
18041809, Jun 8
 an English-American political activist, philosopher, political theorist and revolutionary. One of...
Jean-Pierre Blanchard1753, Jul 41784
 
18081809, Mar 7
 a French inventor, best known as a pioneer in balloon flight. Blanchard toured Europe, demonstrat...
Charles Willson Peale1741, Apr 151770
 
18101827, Feb 22
 an American painter, soldier, scientist, inventor, politician and naturalist. He is best remember...
Alexander Cumming17331750
 
18141814, Mar 8
 a Scottish watchmaker and instrument inventor, who was the first to patent a design of the flush ...
Philip Astley1742, Jan 81759
 
18141814, Jan 27
 an English equestrian, circus owner, and inventor, regarded as being the "father of the modern ci...
Benjamin Thompson1753, Mar 261766
 
18141814, Aug 21
 an American-born British physicist and inventor whose challenges to established physical theory w...
Samuel Hopkins [2]1743, Dec 91759
 
18191818
 an American inventor from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. On July 31, 1790, he was granted the first ...
Alessandro Volta1745, Feb 181774
 
18191827, Mar 5
 an Italian physicist, chemist, and a pioneer of electricity and power, who is credited as the inv...
Samuel Morey1762, Oct 231780
 
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 an American inventor, who worked on early internal combustion engines and was a pioneer in steams...
David Rittenhouse1732, Apr 81750
 
1871796, Jun 26
 a renowned American astronomer, inventor, clockmaker, mathematician, surveyor, scientific instrum...
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