Simon blows up. Bruce is deflated.
Everyone loves a balloon, right? Well, most people, anyway. This inflated story of the party favourite is floating about and popping with facts.
As always, click on the pics for an awful lot more all about balloons.
Aztec Balloons
Galileo's Balloons
Michael Faraday's Balloons
Montgolfiers' Hot Air Balloon 1783
The First Cross Channel Balloon - Blanchard 1785
Hot Air Balloon Disaster Ireland 1785
How to Direct a Balloon
The Gondolas
Military use of Balloons
Barrage Balloons
1808 Balloon Duel
2012 Felix Baumgartner leap from a balloon in space
Lawnchair Larry
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