| 单词 | montgolfier balloon |
| 释义 | > as lemmasMontgolfier balloon A balloon raised by heated air instead of gas; a hot-air balloon. Also more fully Montgolfier balloon.The first voyage made in a Montgolfier balloon was by Pilatre de Rozier on 21 November 1783. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > balloons and airships > [noun] > balloon > types of balloon fire balloon1754 Montgolfier1783 hot-air balloon1843 sausage1858 sausage balloon1874 observation balloon1909 obbo1925 aerostat1974 1783 in Catal. W. H. Robinson Ltd. (Newcastle-on-Tyne) (1926) No. 14. 49 (caption) The Montgolfier, a first rate of the French aerial navy. 1784 Morning Herald 4 Oct. 3/3 A splendid entertainment..in which..they had launched a Montgolfiere, a balloon filled with rarified air, thirty feet high. 1849 G. Head Tour Rome I. 46 A huge paper ‘Montgolfier’, or fire balloon. 1860 Chambers's Encycl. I. 646/2 The longest voyage ever executed in a Montgolfière. 1905 G. Bacon Balloons ii. 28 Instead of a gallery to carry the passengers, as in the ‘Montgolfier’, a car shaped like a boat was suspended from the net. 1974 Country Life 11 Apr. 860/1 Hot-air ballooning..has become an increasingly popular sport in Britain... The balloons in use today are known as Montgolfiers. 1992 S. P. Maran Astron. & Astrophysics Encycl. 494/2 The hot air balloon or montgolfiere relies for lift entirely on the temperature differential between the atmospheric gases inside the balloon and the air outside. < as lemmas |
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