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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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| 1 | Franklin, Benjamin | Banks, Joseph | From Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Banks, 27 July 1783 | 1783-07-27 | The idea for the hot-air balloon came from Joseph Montgolfier, a scion of the great... ...balloons... |
| 2 | Le Roy, Jean-Baptiste | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Jean-Baptiste Le Roy, [27 … | 1783-07-27 | ...man who had performed an experiment with a balloon 35 feet in diameter. See the annotation... |
| 3 | Franklin, Benjamin | Saussure, Horace-Bénédict de | From Benjamin Franklin to Horace-Bénédict de Saussure … | 1783-08-23 | ...in 1776. Fascinated by the scientific potential of balloons, he went to Lyon in January, 1784... |
| 4 | Banks, Joseph | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Joseph Banks, 25 August 1783 | 1783-08-25 | Sir Joseph Banks Balloons &c...” he reported. Charles’s balloon was being made “upon... |
| 5 | Franklin, Benjamin | “Une Abonnée,” [after 27 August 1783] | ≈1783-08-27 | ...and least expensive gas to fill a balloon. In late July, when Montgolfier announced... | |
| 6 | Franklin, Benjamin | Banks, Joseph | From Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Banks, 30 August[–2 … | ≈1783-08-30 | ...Académie des sciences, working on his new balloon, and pursuing his business interests as... |
| 7 | Franklin, Benjamin | Ingenhousz, Jan | From Benjamin Franklin to Ingenhousz, 2 September 1783 | 1783-09-02 | ...of the peasants at Gonesse, where the balloon landed. “Allarme générale des habitants de... |
| 8 | Montgolfier, Jacques-Etienne | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier … | 1783-09-11 | ...members of the Académie des sciences a preview of the balloon he had constructed. |