Jacques Charles
French inventor, scientist, mathematician, and balloonist · France · Scientists · Lived 1746 to 1823 · aged 76
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Something wrong?Jacques Alexandre César Charles was a French inventor, scientist, and balloonist. Charles wrote almost nothing about mathematics, and most of what has been credited to him was due to mistaking him with another Jacques Charles, also a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences, entering on 12 May 1785.
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The balloon built by Charles and the Robert brothers is attacked by terrified villagers in Gonesse. Some of them even started attacking him because they weren't used to things flying.
Contemporary illustration of the first flight by Charles with Nicolas-Louis Robert, 1 December 1783. Viewed from the Place de la Concorde to the Tuileries Palace (destroyed in 1871)
Meusnier's dirigibleIn their orbit
Spouse: Julie CharlesAbout this person
Country
France
Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1746 to 1823 · aged 76
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