English to English
noun
- French inventor who (with his brother Josef Michel Montgolfier) pioneered hot-air ballooning (1745-1799)
source: WordNet 3.0
- French inventor who (with his brother Jacques Etienne Montgolfier) pioneered hot-air ballooning (1740-1810)
source: WordNet 3.0
- 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.
source: Webster 1913