- 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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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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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...
- (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...
-
represented a
turning point in
human civilization was done by Jean-François
Pilâtre de Rozier. On 27
April 1784 Beaumarchais's play The
Marriage of Figaro...
- the roof of a
mosque in
Nishapur and fell to his death. Jean-François
Pilâtre de
Rozier (1754–1785) was the
first known fatality in an air
crash when...
- 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...
- ten days
after the world's
first crewed balloon flight by Jean-François
Pilâtre de
Rozier using a
Montgolfier brothers hot air balloon.
Simon Schama wrote...
- the
oldest in Europe. The
birthplaces of Paul Verlaine, Jean-François
Pilâtre de Rozier, André Schwarz-Bart,
Gustave Kahn,
Gabriel Pierné, the sculptor...
