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How Has Air Been Used in Different

This document summarizes the early history of using hot air and steam power. It discusses the first known use of steam power in ancient Alexandria in 75 AD. It then describes the first hot air balloon launched by the Montgolfier brothers in France in 1783. The document also outlines some other firsts, including the first steam powered car created by Nicholas Cugnot in France and the first commercial steamboat tested by John Fitch on the Delaware River in 1787.

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How Has Air Been Used in Different

This document summarizes the early history of using hot air and steam power. It discusses the first known use of steam power in ancient Alexandria in 75 AD. It then describes the first hot air balloon launched by the Montgolfier brothers in France in 1783. The document also outlines some other firsts, including the first steam powered car created by Nicholas Cugnot in France and the first commercial steamboat tested by John Fitch on the Delaware River in 1787.

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How has hot air been

used in different
Contents
• Early known Steam history
• First hot air balloon
• First steam powered car
• First steam boat
• bibliography
Early Steam history
• Earliest record of steam power goes
back to 75 AD I Alexandria
• Mathematician “Hero”, Alexandria
Greece
• Wrote 3 books on properties of air
• Had plans to make steam engines
• 14th century monk from England
recorded an account of seeing goat
skins flying when placed near steam
from soup.
History of the first Hot Air
•
balloon
1782 France, Joseph Michel Montgolfier filled
silk bag with hot air
• It rose to the ceiling because air in the bag
was less dense than air around it
• April 25, 1783 Joseph and his brother Jacques
Etienne built a larger bag filled with hot air
from a fire
• They put several farm animals in the basket,
then they created a bigger model, on
November 21, 1783 in Bois de Boulage Paris
they launched a 70 foot balloon
• They lifted 3000 feet and stayed in the air
for 28 minutes travelling 5 miles controlling
First Steam Powered Car
• First Automobile theory started
with Leonardo Da Vinci and
Isaac Newton
• First self-propelled road vehicle
was created by French
engineer and mechanic,
Nicholas Cugnot
• He used a steam engine to
propel it
• The vehicle was later used to
move artillery for the French
First Steam Boat
• 1769, Scotsman James put a patent on an
improved version of the Steam engine that
lead the Industrial Revolution
• The idea of using steam to propel boats first
came after James Watts new engine
• Steam boats became popular in America in
1787 when John Fitch tested his forty five foot
steamboat on the Delawore River on August
22, 1787
Bibliography
• http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/a
• http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors
• http://science.howstuffworks.com/steam-tec
• http://inventors.about.com/od/italianinvento
• http://www.sussexsteam.co.uk/Hero1.jpg
• http://www.airtoairafrica.co.za/images/hisba

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