Jacques Charles's life.
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Interesting facts:
- Jacques Alexandre César Charles was born in Beaugency, France on November 12, 1746.
Childhood:
- He didn't have any siblings.
Adolescence:
- He studied at the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers, that is a higher education establishment that promotes science and industry.
Adulthood:
- By 1781, he gave public demonstrations of his experiments, and lectures.
- He made the first hydrogen balloon in 1783 with the help of the Robert brothers, and he was the first one to travel in a hot air balloon.
- In 1795, he was appointed as a resident member of the Académie de Sciences.
- Charles taught at the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers.
Place of death:
- He died on April 7, 1823, in Paris, France, when he was 77 years old.
Family:
- Charles married Julie-Françoise Bouchard des Hérettes, in 1804.
Education:
- He had a liberal education with no scientific focus.
Influences:
- Charles was inspired to study physics in 1779, when Benjamin Franklin visited France.
Interesting facts:
- On August 27, 1783, Charles' first balloon gathered a big crowd in the Champs de Mars, where the Eiffel Tower is now.
- With Nicholas Robert, Charles was the first to travel in a hydrogen balloon, in 1783.
- Charles’s first balloon landed in the small village of Gonesse, and the peasants attacked it, because they thought it was a monster from the sky.
- Benjamin Franklin was an spectator in the ascending of the first hot air balloon.
- Charles started working in finances.
Charles in 1820, at the age of 74.