A balloon which ascends by the buoyancy of air heated by a fire; a fire balloon; -- so called from two brothers, Stephen and Joseph Montgolfier, of France, who first constructed and sent up a fire balloon.

In 1783 the Montgolfier brothers made the first flight in a hot air balloon.. See Also: Chronology of Flight. Search for Montgolfier books on Amazon.co.uk

French inventor who (with his brother Josef Michel Montgolfier) pioneered hot-air ballooning (1745-1799)

Montgolfier is a worn lunar impact crater that is located in the northern hemisphere of the Moon's far side. To the east-norteast is Paraskevopoulos crater, and southwest of Montgolfier lies the Schneller crater.