Sentence examples for first balloons from inspiring English sources

"We're the happiest people in the world and we're thrilled that you brought the Berlin Wall down 25 years ago," said the Mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit, as the first balloons were sent aloft.

The first balloon aeronauts, in 1783, were a sheep, a duck, and a rooster.

Gay-Lussac in 1804 on the first balloon flight undertaken for scientific purposes.

His first balloon design was the Brazil, which he flew in 1898.

Mr. Johnson spotted his first balloon of the season Wednesday morning, he said.

De Rozier and his passenger, Pierre-Jules Romain, died within minutes of the ensuing crash, becoming the first balloon fatalities.

At 7.20pm, with a considerable delay, the first balloon floated into the night sky in front of the Brandenburg Gate.

The first person at the landing site of the menagerie balloon was Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, who would become the first balloon pilot.

This occasioned the first balloon drop in the renovated Tully Hall, each balloon a sea of blue bearing highly approximate green continents.

Uncle Sam, who had not appeared as a balloon since the early 1940's, made a comeback as the first balloon in the parade.

He talks of the immense pride he and the engineers had in their first balloon, saying "a first-born baby could hardly be a greater joy and wonder".