Birth Of The Balloon
Broadcast: September 17, 1946
Added: Apr 28 2017
How far can man go in his great adventure in the sky? This is a story which dates back to the year 1872 in a small French village where two brothers, Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier came up with the idea of creating a balloon. We hear so much about the tremendous strides made in the science of aeronautics such as jet propulsion, robot planes, rocket ships, that it makes one stop and wonder where man can go on this great adventure in the sky. It used to be that the sky was the limit, but today the sky is only the beginning...