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Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, engraving by Ambroise Tardieu.
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac
French scientist
Auguste Piccard, 1961
Auguste Piccard
Swiss-Belgian physicist
Joseph-Michel Montgolfier
French aviator
Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier
French aviator
Dick Smith
Australian aviator and businessman
Joseph-Michel Montgolfier
Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier
French aviators
Ben L. Abruzzo
American balloonist
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre-François
Jean-Pierre Blanchard
French balloonist
Maxie Anderson
American balloonist
Jean-Felix Piccard
American chemical engineer
Charles, Jacques-Alexandre-César
Jacques Charles
French physicist
Charles Green, detail of an engraving by Hilaire Le Dru, 1835
Charles Green
British balloonist
Albert W. Stevens
American aerial photographer
Nicolas-Louis Robert
French inventor

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