Crossword-Solution: MONTGOLFIER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Montgolfier | n. | A balloon which ascends by the buoyancy of air heated by a fire; a fire balloon; -- so called from two brothers, Stephen and Joseph Montgolfier, of France, who first constructed and sent up a fire balloon. |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Big name in hot-air balloon history | 1 answer |
| a balloon using fire for propulsion | 1 answer |
| BALLOON ___ | 46 answers |
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Archaic object pronoun
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Hint 1 meaning
The objective case of thou. See Thou.
Hint 2 anagram
HETE
Hint 3 another clue
BEING USED OR WORKED FOR THE FIRST TIME
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Sentences with MONTGOLFIER (5)
These young men were brothers, named Stephen and Joseph Montgolfier, and their experiments resulted in the invention of the balloon.
Montgolfier was not a rich man, and to enable him to continue his experiments the society granted him a considerable sum of money.
The First Attempts to Steer a Balloon For nearly a century after the invention of the Montgolfier and Charlier balloons there was not much progress made in the science of aeronautics.
Two young men, Stephen and Joseph Montgolfier, the representatives of a firm of paper makers, were sitting together over their parlour fire.
But he had accomplished no more when, as related, in the autumn of the same year the brothers Montgolfier conceived the notion of making bodies "levitate" by the simpler expedient of filling them with smoke.
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Appears in: Newsday.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2018).