Animals first went aloft in 1783, when the Montgolfier Bros. sent a sheep, a duck & a rooster up in one of these
[DOC] [TLE] Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier | French aviators ... [PAR] French brothers who were pioneer developers of the hot-air balloon and who ... 
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passengers.