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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 279 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BALLOON , a globular bag of varnished See also:

SILK

silk or other material impermeable to See also:

air, which, when inflated with See also:

GAS

gas lighter than See also:

COMMON

common air, can be used in See also:

AERONAUTICS

aeronautics, or, according to its See also:

SIZE

size, &c., for any purpose for which its ability to rise and See also:

FLOAT (in O. Eng. floc and flota, in the verbal form f eotan; the Teutonic root is flut-, another form of flu-, seen in " flow," cf. " fleet "; the root is seen in Gr. a-M e, to sail, Lat. pluere, to rain; the Lat, fluere and fluctus, wave, is not connect

float in the See also:

ATMOSPHERE (Gr. fir µ6r, vapour; orkaipa, a sphere)

atmosphere adapts such a mechanism. " Balloon " in this sense was first used in 1783 in connexion with the invention of the See also:

BROTHERS, RICHARD (1757-1824)

brothers Montgolfier, but the word was in earlier use (derived from Ital. ballone, a large See also:

ball) as meaning an actual ball or ball-See also:

GAME

game, a See also:

PRIMITIVE

primitive explosive See also:

BOMB

bomb or firework, a See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form of chemical See also:

RETORT (Lat. retorquere, to twist or turn back)

retort or See also:

RECEIVER

receiver, and an ornamental globe in See also:

ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture; and from the See also:

APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance and shape of an air balloon the word is also given by See also:

ANALOGY (Gr. avaXo-yLa, proportion)

analogy to other things, such as a "balloon skirt" in See also:

DRESS (from the Fr. dresser, to set out, arrange, formed from Lat. directus, arranged, dirigere, to direct, arrange)

dress, "balloon training" in horti- culture. (See AERONAUTICS, and See also:

FLIGHT

FLIGHT AND FLYING).

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