Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ fʁɑ̃swa pilɑtʁ də ʁozje]) (30 March 1754 – 15 June 1785) was a French chemistry and physics...
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Pilâtre is a lunar impact crater near the southwestern limb of the Moon. It is located just to the north-northwest of the much larger walled plain Hausen...
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likely on 15 October 1783. A little while later on that same day, physicist Pilâtre de Rozier became the second to ascend into the air, to an altitude of 80...
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(79 ft); Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier of France, the first ascent in a hot-air balloon. 1783-10-19: 81 m (266 ft); Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, in Paris...
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balloon flight in the world was performed in Paris, France, by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes on November 21, 1783, in a balloon...
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represented a turning point in human civilization was done by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier. On 27 April 1784, Pierre Beaumarchais's play The Marriage of...
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marquis, soldier and a pioneer of hot air ballooning. He and Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier made the first manned free balloon flight on 21 November 1783...
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could only vent the gas or drop off ballast a limited number of times. Pilâtre de Rozier realised that for a long-distance flight such as crossing the...
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economist Balthazar Martinot (1636-1714) French clockmaker. Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier scientist, balloonist and curator; the first person to make an...
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l'observateur Bon Sens à M. de M sur la fatale catastrophe des infortunés Pilatre de Rozier et Ronzain, les aéronautes et l'aérostation (1785) Observations...
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