Lighter-than-air flight in balloon

The Montgolfier brothers' first balloon (4 June 1783)

The balloon in which de Rozier and Romain met their deaths (15 June 1785)

Lunardi's hydrogen balloon (15 September 1784)

Pilatre de Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlandes in the first manned balloon ascent (21 Nov 1783)

Montgolfier balloon (19 Sept 1783)

L'Entreprenant, the first balloon put to military use (1794)

First balloon ascent in the United States and first airmail delivery: Blanchard (9 Jan 1793)

The balloon in which Blanchard and Jeffries crossed the Channel (7 Jan 1785) La Charliere (1 Dec 1783)

Nassau, the large balloon in which Charles Green flew from London to Weilburg in Germany ( Nov 1836)