How to Pronounce Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier
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Mar 30, 1754 Metz, Grand Est, France Died on 15 Jun 1785 (aged 31)
French balloonist
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About Jean François Pilâtre De Rozier
- Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier (French pronunciation: ?[??~ f??~swa pil?t? d? ?ozje]) (30 March 1754 – 15 June 1785) was a French chemistry and physics teacher, and one of the first pioneers of aviation.
- He and François Laurent d'Arlandes made the first manned free balloon flight on 21 November 1783, in a Montgolfier balloon.
- He later died when his balloon crashed near Wimereux in the Pas-de-Calais during an attempt to fly across the English Channel.
- He and his companion, Pierre Romain, thus became the first known fatalities in an air crash.
- He also risked himself while researching the flammability of hydrogen: in "A Short History of Nearly Everything", Bill Bryson writes "In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at a stroke that hydrogen is indeed explosively combustible and that eyebrows are not necessarily a permanent feature of one’s face."
