How has hot air been

used in different
 Contents
• Early known Steam history
• First hot air balloon
• First steam powered car
• First steam boat
• bibliography
 Early Steam history
• Earliest record of steam power goes
back to 75 AD I Alexandria
• Mathematician “Hero”, Alexandria
Greece
• Wrote 3 books on properties of air
• Had plans to make steam engines
• 14th century monk from England
recorded an account of seeing goat
skins flying when placed near steam
from soup.
 History of the first Hot Air
•
balloon
1782 France, Joseph Michel Montgolfier filled
silk bag with hot air
• It rose to the ceiling because air in the bag
was less dense than air around it
• April 25, 1783 Joseph and his brother Jacques
Etienne built a larger bag filled with hot air
from a fire
• They put several farm animals in the basket,
then they created a bigger model, on
November 21, 1783 in Bois de Boulage Paris
they launched a 70 foot balloon
• They lifted 3000 feet and stayed in the air
for 28 minutes travelling 5 miles controlling
 First Steam Powered Car
• First Automobile theory started
with Leonardo Da Vinci and
Isaac Newton
• First self-propelled road vehicle
was created by French
engineer and mechanic,
Nicholas Cugnot
• He used a steam engine to
propel it
• The vehicle was later used to
move artillery for the French
 First Steam Boat
• 1769, Scotsman James put a patent on an
improved version of the Steam engine that
lead the Industrial Revolution
• The idea of using steam to propel boats first
came after James Watts new engine
• Steam boats became popular in America in
1787 when John Fitch tested his forty five foot
steamboat on the Delawore River on August
22, 1787
 Bibliography
• http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/a
• http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors
• http://science.howstuffworks.com/steam-tec
• http://inventors.about.com/od/italianinvento
• http://www.sussexsteam.co.uk/Hero1.jpg
• http://www.airtoairafrica.co.za/images/hisba