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Jacques Charles
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French inventor, scientist, mathematician, and balloonist
Key facts
- Born
- 12 November 1746 ( 1746-11-12 ) , Beaugency , France
- Died
- 7 April 1823 ( 1823-04-08 ) (aged 76), Paris , France
- Known for
- Charles's law
- Fields
- Physics , mathematics , hot air ballooning
- Institutions
- Académie des Sciences
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- César
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Beaugency
- Place of death
- Paris
- Occupation
- aircraft pilot
- Languages spoken
- French
- Field of work
- hot air ballooning
- Image
- Portrait du physicien Charles (cropped).jpg
- Work location
- Paris
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- place of burial
- Père Lachaise Cemetery
- Commons category
- Jacques Alexandre César Charles
- member of
- French Academy of Sciences
- described by source
- New International Encyclopedia
- Commons gallery
- Jacques Charles
- has works in the collection
- Musée des Arts et Métiers
- P8168
- Packard One-Twenty
- ethnic group
- French
- name in native language
- Jacques Charles
- date of birth
- 1746-11-12
- date of death
- 1825-04-07
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Encyclopedic overview
Jacques Alexandre César Charles ( French pronunciation: [ʒak alɛksɑ̃dʁ sezaʁ ʃaʁl]; 12 November 1746 – 7 April 1823) was a French inventor, scientist, and balloonist. Charles wrote almost nothing about mathematics, and most of what has been credited to him was due to mistaking him with another Jacques Charles (sometimes called Charles the Geometer), also a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences, entering on 12 May 1785.
Charles and the Robert brothers launched the world's first hydrogen-filled gas balloon August 27, 1783; then December 1, 1783, Charles and his co-pilot Nicolas-Louis Robert ascended to a height of about 1,800 feet (550 m) in a piloted gas balloon. Their pioneering use of hydrogen for lift led to this type of gas balloon being named a Charlière (as opposed to the hot-air Montgolfière).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jacques Charles” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.