Brothers Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier invented the hot air balloon in 1783. They developed the Montgolfière-style hot air balloon, which was the first practical hot air balloon capable of carrying humans
. Their first public demonstration of an unmanned hot air balloon took place on June 4, 1783, in Annonay, France, where the balloon rose about 3,000 feet and traveled over a mile and a half before landing
. Later that year, on September 19, 1783, they demonstrated a larger balloon carrying animals (a sheep, a duck, and a rooster) in front of King Louis XVI at Versailles, marking the first aerostatic flight with living passengers
. The first untethered human flight in a Montgolfier hot air balloon occurred on November 21, 1783, when Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent, Marquis d’Arlandes, flew about 5.6 miles over Paris for 25 minutes
. Thus, the Montgolfier brothers invented and pioneered the hot air balloon as a new mode of air transport in 1783
