Hot-air balloon
Hot-air balloon noun - Balloon for travel through the air in a basket suspended below a large bag of heated air.
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Montgolfier and hot-air balloon are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Montgolfier" instead a noun phrase "Hot-air balloon".
Montgolfier
Montgolfier noun - French inventor who (with his brother Josef Michel Montgolfier) pioneered hot-air ballooning (1745-1799).
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Hot-air balloon and Montgolfier are semantically related. You can use "Hot-air balloon" instead a noun "Montgolfier".
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- Although the idea of a hot-air balloon had been kicking around for quite a while, proof of concept was not shown until 1709 by Brazilian priest Bartolomeu de Gusmao, and the first manned balloon flight didn't happen until the Montgolfier brothers in 1783.
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