Tonight's Topic: "Mixed Bag of 3 Trivia Questions -- #29: These BALLOONS are for YOU!"
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Accordingly, we ask you to tell us if you can tell us if we are telling the truth, or just full of it -- about Balloons.
So, how much do you know about... This BALLOON is for YOU!?
Please give us your best answers for each of the following 3 TRUE or FALSE questions, by using the (reuseable) answers of "A"=TRUE or "B"=FALSE.
++ "Mixed Bag of 3 Trivia Questions -- #29: These BALLOONS are for YOU!" ++
Question #1: The first untethered hot-air ballon flight occurred on this day in 1783. It flew for about 5.5 miles over Paris (France) and lasted about 28 minutes -- True or False?
A. True, or
B. False.
After several tethered tests to gain some experience of controlling the
balloon, de Rozier and d'Arlandes made their first untethered flight in a
Montgolfier hot air balloon on 21 November 1783, taking off at around 2
p.m. from the garden of the Château de la Muette in the Bois de Boulogne,
in the presence of the King. Their 25-minute flight travelled slowly
about 5½ miles (some 9 km) to the southeast, attaining an altitude of
3,000 feet, before returning to the ground at the Butte-aux-Cailles, then on the outskirts of Paris.
Later, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and his companion, Pierre Romain, became the first known fatalities in an air crash. [Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier]
Question
#2: Although in
1825, the inventor Thomas Hancock produced the first toy balloons in
Great Britain using a bottle of rubber solution, it was on
this day in 1843, that Hancock took out a patent for the
vulcanisation of rubber using sulphur -- eight weeks before
Charles Goodyear did the same in the US -- True or False?Later, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and his companion, Pierre Romain, became the first known fatalities in an air crash. [Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier]
A. True, or
B. False.
1825 - The first chance that people had to get a rubber balloon was in 1825. But they had to make the actual balloon themselves.
The balloons came in the form of a kit. The kit was made up of ". . . a bottle of rubber solution and a condensing syringe."
It was marketed by England's pioneer rubber manufacturer, Thomas Hancock.
As early as 1889, balloons could be bought by people in the United States.
Montgomery Ward had them in their catalog that year.
The catalog listed them as ". . . red rubber balloons with trumpet ends." The price was four cents each or forty cents a dozen.
The balloons were not made in the United States, but were probably imported from Belgium.
On 21 November 1843, Hancock took out a patent for the vulcanisation of rubber using sulphur, 8 weeks before Charles Goodyear in the US (30 January 1844).
He mentioned in his "Personal Narrative" that his friend William Brockendon invented the word vulcanisation from the God Vulcan of Roman mythology.
Hancock did not credit himself with discovering the reaction of sulphur with rubber; he instead said that in 1842 Brockendon had showed him some American rubber samples which had been treated with sulphur. [Thomas Hancock (inventor) (1786–1865), English inventor who founded the British rubber industry]
Question
#3: On this day in 1917, after 19 aerial dog-fights (including 3 observation ballons), the German flying Ace Rudolph von Eschwege attacks a booby-trapped observation balloon packed with explosives over Macedonia and is killed
-- True or False?The balloons came in the form of a kit. The kit was made up of ". . . a bottle of rubber solution and a condensing syringe."
It was marketed by England's pioneer rubber manufacturer, Thomas Hancock.
As early as 1889, balloons could be bought by people in the United States.
Montgomery Ward had them in their catalog that year.
The catalog listed them as ". . . red rubber balloons with trumpet ends." The price was four cents each or forty cents a dozen.
The balloons were not made in the United States, but were probably imported from Belgium.
On 21 November 1843, Hancock took out a patent for the vulcanisation of rubber using sulphur, 8 weeks before Charles Goodyear in the US (30 January 1844).
He mentioned in his "Personal Narrative" that his friend William Brockendon invented the word vulcanisation from the God Vulcan of Roman mythology.
Hancock did not credit himself with discovering the reaction of sulphur with rubber; he instead said that in 1842 Brockendon had showed him some American rubber samples which had been treated with sulphur. [Thomas Hancock (inventor) (1786–1865), English inventor who founded the British rubber industry]
B. False.
Having joined the army before the war, Eschwege saw action with the
cavalry before his transfer to the German Air Force in 1915.
In August of that year, he was posted to FA 36 as a reconnaissance pilot on the Western Front.
In 1916, he was credited with his first two victories after joining FA 66 on the Macedonian front.
Reassigned to FA 30 in January 1917, Eschwege became known as "The Eagle of the Aegean," achieving 18 additional victories with a variety of fighter aircraft.
Having just been recommended for the Blue Max, he was killed in action during an attack on a decoy balloon launched by No. 17 Balloon Section of the Royal Flying Corps.
As Eschwege engaged the target, the British ground crew detonated 500 pounds of explosive in the balloon's basket, damaging the German's Halberstadt Scout and causing it to crash.
[Rudolph von Eschwege - The Aerodrome]In August of that year, he was posted to FA 36 as a reconnaissance pilot on the Western Front.
In 1916, he was credited with his first two victories after joining FA 66 on the Macedonian front.
Reassigned to FA 30 in January 1917, Eschwege became known as "The Eagle of the Aegean," achieving 18 additional victories with a variety of fighter aircraft.
Having just been recommended for the Blue Max, he was killed in action during an attack on a decoy balloon launched by No. 17 Balloon Section of the Royal Flying Corps.
As Eschwege engaged the target, the British ground crew detonated 500 pounds of explosive in the balloon's basket, damaging the German's Halberstadt Scout and causing it to crash.
Please see Rudolf von Eschwege: German World War I Ace Fighter Pilot for a detailed account of
von Eschwege's Big BALLOON Adventure!
=================von Eschwege's Big BALLOON Adventure!
++ QUOTE OF THE DAY ++ -- from Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick (1851):
"Gasses are generated in him; he swells to a prodigious magnitude; becomes a sort of animal BALLOON." (no, NOT "Balloon Animals"!)
Thank you!
Shelley [KF7TBA] & LW [K7LWA]
Posted 2014-11-22 02:05PT
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