{"id":109481,"date":"2017-12-09T15:13:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T15:13:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T10:52:48","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T10:52:48","slug":"balloonmania-reached-united-states-1793-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/09\/balloonmania-reached-united-states-1793-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Balloonmania reached the United States, 1793"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/modernhistorian.blogspot.com\/2012\/01\/on-this-day-in-history-balloonmania.html\"> <\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-body entry-content\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_FN98eHvI0Yg\/SWZDa3636CI\/AAAAAAAABQs\/HFw8k-cVGT8\/s1600-h\/Blanchard_Balloon.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288988941359769634\" src=\"http:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/blanchard_balloon.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-109482\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 150px;\" \/><\/a>In  the years following the Montgolfier brothers&#8217; first successful balloon  flights in 1783 &#8216;balloonmania&#8217; swept across Europe. One of the greatest  promoters of this new form of transport was the Frenchman Jean-Pierre  Blanchard. He made his first successful flight at Paris using a hydrogen  filled balloon in March 1784. He then travelled around Europe  demonstrating his balloons becoming the first to fly a balloon across  the English Channel (accompanied by Dr. John Jeffries), as well the  first to fly such devices in Belgium, Germany, Holland and Poland.<\/p>\n<p>Blanchard  then crossed the Atlantic and on 9th January 1793 he added to his  records by making the first balloon flight in the United States.  President George Washington observed Blanchard take to the air at around  10:10am from Philadelphia in Pennsylvania after having given the  Frenchman a letter under his seal requiring that no US citizen hinder  him. Also watching the launch were the future presidents John Adams,  Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe. At 10:56am, Blanchard landed at Deptford  in Gloucester County, New Jersey, where he soon attracted a crowd of  bemused onlookers who were not only impressed by the manner of his  arrival, but also by the President&#8217;s letter.<\/p>\n<p>Blanchard&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/fortyfifthasc00blanrich\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Journal of my forty-fifth ascension, being the first performed in America, on the ninth of January, 1793<\/span><\/a> is available in a number of file formats on the Internet Archive site.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the years following the Montgolfier brothers&#8217; first successful balloon flights in 1783 &#8216;balloonmania&#8217; swept across Europe. One of the greatest promoters of this new form of transport was the Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard. He made his first successful flight at Paris using a hydrogen filled balloon in March 1784. He then travelled around Europe demonstrating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":109482,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109481"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}