Jean-Pierre Blanchard
See also: Blanchard
Jean-Pierre Blanchard , or Jean-Pierre François Blanchard, born with the Andelys (the Eure) the July 17th 1753 and died in Paris the March 7th 1809, is an autodidact French which was illustrated in the conquest of the airs in balloon.
Wire of a workman turner, it shows as of childhood its taste for the invention and mechanics. It builds automats then designs a pedal car. Later, it develops a hydraulic machine to feed Castle-Strapping man out of water, renewed experiment with Vernon then with Grenoble.
But it is the conquest of the airs which impassions it. He works with a “ flying vessel having the shape of a bird, provided with six wings and rudder ”. He organizes a public demonstration the May 5th 1782 but will not be able to take off.
According to the example of the Frères Montgolfier which made steal a balloon with two passengers inflated to the hot air the previous year, it builds a balloon inflated with the Hydrogène and provided with a propeller and oars in feathers driven with the force of the arms. The March 2nd 1784, the crowd gathered on the Champ de Mars in Paris attends the rise of an inhabited airship. The balloon, pushed by the wind, crosses the Seine and returns to be posed street of Sevres.
The January 7th 1785, Blanchard and its friend and American patron John Jeffries cross the Manche of Dover to Guines in 2 hours 25 minutes, on board a balloon inflated with hydrogen. This exploit had a repercussion in all Europe and Blanchard went in many countries to make demonstrations of flight in balloon as of the tests with animals of a parachute to which he works.
It went to the the United States to make presentations, during one whose his/her son will find death. Itself falls from its balloon in 1808 to $the Hague. Returned in Paris, it dies there the March 7th 1809. His second wife, Madeleine Sophie Arming, which accompanied it since 1805, continues the presentations of coasting flight. She also leaves there the life to Paris the July 6th 1819, her balloon being ignited.
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