Jean-Pierre Blanchard, French inventor, best known as a pioneer in balloon flight (died 1809)

Jean-Pierre Blanchard

French inventor (1753–1809)

Jean-Pierre [François] Blanchard was a French inventor, best known as a pioneer of gas balloon flight, who distinguished himself in the conquest of the air in a balloon. Notable for his successful hydrogen balloon flight in Paris on 2 March 1784, Blanchard later moved to London…