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On November 21st in 1783, the hot air balloon made history becoming the first successful way of air travel for humans. There is a lot of science behind it, but basically, the hot air balloon is caused by rising and sinking air and the heating of it by fire in the capsule beneath the actual balloon. Originally, King Louis XVI decreed that the first pilots to go up untethered should be condemned criminals, but after petitioning, Pilatre de Rozier and Marquis François d'Arlandes were the first to go into the air without a rope to hold them down.
Hopefully, you have a better Monday now knowing how the hot air balloon started.
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