What is the early history of the airship?
The history of the airships begins on August 8, 1709, when the Jesuit priest Bartolomeu de Gusmao successfully hovered the ball to the ceiling of Casa da India in Lisbon, combustion. Surprisingly, it is the first verified historical reference to any type of driven (inhuman) airship. Earlier references to driven flights or airships are purely mythological, such as ICARUS Greek legend. The demonstration of Bartolomeu de Gusmao was in the presence of the Royal Court in Portugal and King John V, who originally provided funds for effort. He planned to produce airships with the crew, but died before it could be done.
In the history of the airships, there were little important until almost a century later, in June 1783, when the Montgolfier brothers, the French inventors who began as paper manufacturers, built the first legitimate flying machine Vlidian history. It was a balloon -shaped balloonLe with a volume of more than 28,000 cubic tracks (about 793 cubic meters) and an inner fire that generated hot air for lifting. They performed this performance before the crowd of dignitaries, and the reports were achieved by most of the French elite. The flight was without crew, covered 1.2 miles (2 km), lasted ten minutes and achieved an estimated altitude of 5,200 to 6,600 ft (1,600 to 2,000 m). A few months later, in September, they built a similar balloon and flew it with the first living beings to engage in a driven flight: sheep, duck and rooster. This demonstration was before the French Royal Court and impressed a huge crowd.
A few weeks later, in October, Montgolfier's brothers were ready to start a historical milestone: the first people in a driven flight. They were prepared to involve in experiments with a tethered flight with a crew using 26 -year -old doctor Piller de Rozier. The first experimental flight was October 15, followed by another flight before scientists two days later and the third experiment 19 October with Andre Geroud de VillettE, Madrid wallpaper manufacturer. The flight with Rozier and De Villette reached 324 ft (99 m) along the limiting ropes within 15 seconds.
Historical moment - the first air flight with a crew in history - occurred on November 21, in the Chateau da la Muette on the western edges of Paris. Marquis d'Arlandes, an military officer, joined the piller de Rozier, and flew at an elegantly decorated blue balloon about 5.6 miles (9 km) across Paris, at an altitude of 3,000 ft (910 m). After a 25-minute flight, the balloon landed between a pair of windmills in the Butte-Aux-Cailles area, at that time outside Paris. After this first success, many other balloons were built and the balloon swept the land of France.
Later "age of airships" did not start until 1900D it ended in 1937 with the catastrophe Hindenburg .