Module 3 Great Minds unit 3, a reading and vocabulary exercise 1, page 42.0:04
Animals in the air can you believe that the history of the hot air balloon began with a sheep, a duck and a chicken?0:29
One day in 1777, Joseph Mongolfia was relaxing in front of the fire with his laundry drying nearby.0:55
After a while, he noticed that one of his shirts had started to float upwards.1:04
The young man was curious about what was happening, so he threw some small pieces of paper into the fireplace to see if the same thing happened to them.1:10
When he saw them coming out of the chimney, he came to the conclusion that smoke had had the power to lift things up and carry them through the air.1:20
Joseph loved science and wanted to become an inventor.1:30
So he started trying to think of a craft that would be able to capture smoke and heat and lift people off the ground.1:34
Along with his brother Jacques, he began performing experiments on something that later became the first hot air balloon.1:45
The Montgolvia brothers quickly realized that it was heat and not smoke that had the power to lift things.1:55
On 19 September 1783, they presented their first hot air balloon, which was made from paper and cloth.2:02
They burned some straw underneath it and the heat caused the balloon to float.2:12
As this was its first trip.2:19
The Montgolfier brothers were too nervous to go up in the balloon themselves.2:21
So instead they put a sheep, a duck and a chicken in the basket that hung below the balloon for the two mile journey.2:26
The new invention was a great success and the animals landed safe and sound.2:35
A huge crowd, including some members of the French royal family, gathered to watch the balloon floating high in the sky.2:42
Shortly afterwards, the brothers asked the king for permission to send men up in the balloon.2:50
The king agreed and the first flight with human passengers took place in Paris on 21st November 1783.2:57
The balloon reached a height of around 150 meters as it floated over the Paris rooftops, starting a long tradition of hot air ballooning.3:09
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