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Who invented the balloon?

One evening in 1781, the French inventor Joseph Montgolfier noticed how his wife, passing by the fireplace, swelled a silk peignoir. This led the inventor to some thoughts. Joseph and his brother Etienne set fire to scraps of paper under a silk ball and watched it inflate and fly up.

This is how the idea of a balloon filled with heated air (smoke) was born. Hot air balloon (this name was given to the ball made by Joseph and Etienne) was a linen bag with a diameter of about 30 meters, covered with a layer of paper. The brothers carried out the first successful launch of the ball (without a crew) on June 5, 1783 in their hometown of Vidalon-les-Annon. After the experiment, they were invited by the Paris Academy of Sciences to launch a balloon in the capital.

Thus began the era of balloons. There is, however, not very reliable information about much earlier flights. For example, about the balloon that rose in Beijing in 1306 during the ceremony of accession to the throne of Emperor Fo Kien. Or about the balloon that the Portuguese monk Bartolomeo de Cusmao flew in 1709.

But still, June 5, 1783 is considered the official birthday of the hot air balloon (aerostat).

Author: Kondrashov A.P.

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If a biologist is asked to compile a list of the most necessary things for life, then water, of course, tops this list. Without it, none of the known forms of life is completely impossible. The life of every cell of both plants and animals depends on the presence of this fluid. As you may already know, for every 4,5 kilograms of your body weight, there are 3 kilograms (liters) of water. The same can be said about many other living beings. Without water, a person soon dies. Why is it so? Why is water essential for life?

The main reason that every living being needs water to sustain life is that living cells - these main elements that make up all living things - necessarily include water molecules. During the day, an adult consumes about two liters of water in the form of drinks and one liter - as part of the so-called solid food: in fruits, vegetables, bread, meat, etc., which are not absolutely dry foods, but contain from thirty to ninety percent water.

In addition to these three liters, which enter the human body during the day from the outside, it contains about ten more liters circulating between its various organs. About five liters of blood are constantly in the blood vessels of the body, and three liters of this amount are water. This ratio, like the quantity itself, never changes. Even when a tourist drinks four liters of liquid after a long journey on a hot summer day, there will still be three liters of water in his blood vessels.

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