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  2. Gas explosion - Wikipedia

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    A balloon filled with gaseous hydrogen exploding. A gas explosion is the ignition of a mixture of air and flammable gas, typically from a gas leak. [1] In household accidents, the principal explosive gases are those used for heating or cooking purposes such as natural gas, methane, propane, butane.

  3. Osoaviakhim-1 - Wikipedia

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    Osoaviakhim-1 was a record-setting, hydrogen-filled Soviet high-altitude balloon designed to seat a crew of three and perform scientific studies of the Earth's stratosphere. On January 30, 1934, on its maiden flight , which lasted over 7 hours, the balloon reached an altitude of 22,000 metres (72,000 ft ). [ 1 ]

  4. Auguste Piccard - Wikipedia

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    Auguste Antoine Piccard (28 January 1884 – 24 March 1962) was a Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer known for his record-breaking hydrogen balloon flights, with which he studied the Earth's upper atmosphere and became the first person to enter the Stratosphere.

  5. Incendiary balloon - Wikipedia

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    Balloon launch for Operation Outward. Felixstowe, Suffolk, England. An incendiary balloon (or balloon bomb) is a balloon inflated with a lighter-than-air gas such as hot air, hydrogen, or helium, that has a bomb, incendiary device, or Molotov cocktail attached. The balloon is carried by the prevailing winds to the target area, where it falls or ...

  6. List of ballooning accidents - Wikipedia

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    Balloon involved was a Rozière hybrid hydrogen-hot-air balloon and not a Montgolfiere hot-air balloon. [1] No survivors. Considered one of the first fatal aviation accidents, possibly the first in recorded history. [2] 2 0 6 July 1819: Sophie Blanchard: Paris Sophie Blanchard tried to start a firework in 300 m height above Paris. The balloon ...

  7. The ten-minute sequence capturing the first-ever successful atomic bomb detonation came together through many experiments. It was a given that Nolan would do the scene in-camera.

  8. Timeline of hydrogen technologies - Wikipedia

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    1784 – Jean-Pierre Blanchard attempts a dirigible hydrogen balloon, but it was unable to steer. 1784 – The invention of the Lavoisier Meusnier iron-steam process, [1] generating hydrogen by passing water vapor over a bed of red-hot iron at 600 °C. [2] 1785 – Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier builds the hybrid Rozière balloon.

  9. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition - Wikipedia

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    As for the hydrogen, filling the balloon at the launch site could easily be done with the help of mobile hydrogen manufacturing units; for the steering he referred to his own drag-rope experiments with Svea, stating that a deviation of 27 degrees from the wind direction could be routinely achieved. [6] Merchandising in 1896