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In what century was the balloon invented?

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Although interest in such a craft dates from the 13th cent. the balloon was not actually invented until the late 18th cent. when two French brothers Joseph and Jacques Étienne Montgolfier experimented with inverted paper and cloth bags filled with heated air and in 1783 caused a linen bag about 100 ft (30 m) in diameter to rise in the air.

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