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Encyclopedia Britannica



BALLOON

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 279 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BAI-BAR
BALLOON , a globular bag of varnished
silk
  or other material impermeable to air, which, when inflated with gas lighter than common air, can be used in aeronautics, or, according to its size, &c., for any purpose for which its ability to rise and
float
  in the atmosphere adapts such a mechanism. " Balloon " in this sense was first used in 1783 in connexion with the invention of the
brothers
  Montgolfier, but the word was in earlier use (derived from Ital. ballone, a large
ball
 ) as meaning an actual
ball
  or ball-
game
 , a primitive explosive bomb or firework, a form of chemical retort or receiver, and an ornamental globe in
architecture
 ; and from the
appearance
  and shape of an air balloon the word is also given by
analogy
  to other things, such as a "balloon skirt" in dress, "balloon training" in horti-
culture. (See AERONAUTICS, and FLIGHT AND FLYING).


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