Eighteenth Century Ballooning
In a time where the skies are full of aircraft, it is hard to
imagine a time when air travel was nothing but a dream. That was
just the case during the early eighteenth century. The dream of flight
was so concentrated on winged flight that ballooning was actually and
accidental discovery. The shift to alternate opportunities to fly
occurred in 1766 with the discovery of hydrogen. Henry Cavendish
discovered the gas he coined the “inflammable
They never had any children. While in Segovia, he started to publish his papers on definite proportions. In 1816, Proust was elected to the French Academy of Sciences to succeed Louis Bernard Guyton de Morveau. After his wife died in 1817, he moved back to Angers where he took over a pharmacy owned by his brother, Joachim, who was poor in health. After this in 1819, he was made the chevalier of the Legion of Honour and he was granted a pension by