History of Airships and Balloons
By Mary Bellis, About.com
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- Background and Definitions: Airships and Balloons
- First Flights - Hot Air Balloons and the Montgolfier Brothers
- Hydrogen Balloons - Jacques Charles
- Hydrogen Balloon with Flapping Devices - Jean Blanchard
- History of the Airship - Henri Giffard
- The Baldwin Dirigible
- The Zeppelin - Rigid Framed Airships - Ferdinand Zeppelin
- Resources - Montgolfier Balloon - Army Balloon
- Types of Airships - Nonrigid Airship and Semirigid Airship
- Types of Airships - Rigid Airship or Zeppelin
Flight, Toy Ballons, Hot Air Balloons
The Conquest of the Air - Early Air Balloon ExperimentsEarly History of FlightToy Balloons
Inventors
How Balloons and Airships Work
How Hot Air Balloons WorkHow Blimps WorkHow Do Hot Air Balloons Lift
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