Comments by "Biały" (@Bialy_1) on "Life in the 1800s"
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@andyb619 "In fact, there would have been people born in the 1790s alive when the first plan flew in the 1900s. Think about it." vs. "By the 18th century, people were inflating balloons of cloth or canvas with hot air and sending it aloft, the Montgolfier brothers going so far as to experiment with first animals in 1782, and then, when altitude did not kill them, human beings in 1783. The first hydrogen-filled gas balloon was flown in the 1790s. "
I think about it and as i am not as ignorant as most people here to the history i would like to point out that there was no way that someone born in 1790 would be able to survive to the 1900's, even nowdays with all the modern medicine inventions and modern drugs we have only a bunch of people that are over 110 years old and before 1900's we did not have over 95% of stuff that are avaible nowdays to old people to help them survive another day.
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"The Siege of Paris (September 19,1870-January 28,1871) and the consequent capture of the city by Prussian forces,led to French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War.Balloon mail was the only means by which communications from the besieged city could reach the rest of France.The use of balloons to carry mail was first proposed by the photographer and balloonist Felix Nadar to perform tethered ascents for observation purposes.However the Prussian encirclement of the city made this pointless.Around 66 balloon flights were made,including one that accidentally set a world distance record by ending up in Norway.The vast majority succeeded: only five were captured by the Prussians,and three went missing,presumably coming down in the Atlantic or Irish Sea.The number of letters carried has been estimated at around 2.5 million.Some balloons also carried passengers,most notably Léon Gambetta,the minister for War,who was flown out of Paris."
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