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civil war
In the civil war,union troops,like the French army before them ,usedballoons to spy behind enemy lines to see how battels were going. -
french
Three French scientists exploring the atmosphere, soared 25,000 feet in a balloon.the men took bottels of oxygen with them,but when the balloon landed olny one scientists had survived. -
1900s
The early 1900s brought a dirigible,or a blimp.Made of several balloons,it was fitted with motors and propelers that let the piolet steer.A cabin on the underside held more than 100 people on Atlantic crossings -
Auguste
The man who invinted a way to travel safly high into te air was Auguste Piccard,who built a a ball shaped alumminum gondola.Sealed inside with oxygen tanks,he safely reached a hight of 54,000 feet -
1961
Brave men kept going higher and higher. Two US navy offisers,malcomeD.Ross and Victor.p.Jrwent up 113,704fe et in the an open gondala to set space units for astronauts. -
1999
Others had crossed oceans but Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones were the first to balloon non stop aroun the world,covering 30,000 miles in 20 days.Their balloon was a cross between a hot air balloon and a gas balloon. -
preaent day
Planes have long been the way to travel by air but you often see a blimp carrying a tv crew above a football game or other sporting event. -
every day
hundreds of small wether balloons explore the atmosphere and transmit there findings to earth.