Inventors Who Maybe Should’ve Read The Manual Of Their Own Invention That Ended Up Killing Them
Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier
Jean-Francois was a physics and chemistry teacher who lived in Frane in the 1780’s. He was crossing the English Channel along with Pierre Romain in his Roziere balloon when it crashed. Both Jean-Francois and the other rider of the balloon died after they plummeted 1,500 feet.
The balloon, which was named after him, took over a year to create and was inspired by the Montgolfier balloon which had previous flown goats and ducks. The modern hybrid gas and hot air balloon is named the Roziere balloon after his pioneering.
