Louis Joseph Gay-Lussac
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Louis Joseph Gay-Lussac was a French scientist who made significant balloon voyages in 1804 (20 August and 16 September) with Jean-Baptiste Biot. He found decreasing temperature and variations in humidity. He showed the chemical composition of air at 6,500 meters to be similar to the composition of air at ground level.[1] (In so doing disproving the claims of Robertson, considered by some the first scientific balloonist, that oxygen decreased with altitude.)[2]
References
- ↑ Banet-Rivet, 1898, L'Aéronautique, pp. 222–223.
- ↑ Hildebrandt, 1908, Airships Past and Present, p. 242.
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Publications by or about Louis Joseph Gay-Lussac or Gay-Lussac
- Gay-Lussac, 1804, Relation d'un voyage aérostatique fait le 29 fructidor an XII, et lu à l'Institut National, le 9 vendémiaire an XIII (Simple title: Relation of a aerostatic journey made on 29 Fructidor year XII, and read at the National Institute, the 9 Vendemiaire year XIII, Journal: Journal de Physique • Annales de Chimies)
- Gay-Lussac, 1805, Bericht Gay-Lussac's von seiner aerostatischen Reise, am 16ten Sept. 1804 (Simple title: Gay-Lussac's account of his aerostatic journey, on 16 Sept. 1804, Journal: Annalen der Physik)
- Gay-Lussac, 1805, Relation d'un voyage aérostatique (Simple title: Relationship of an aerostatic journey)
- Figuier, 1850, Les Aérostats et les aéronautes (Simple title: Aerostats and aeronauts, Journal: Revue des Deux Mondes)
- Blerzy, 1863, Les aérostats et les aéronefs (Simple title: Aerostats and 'airships', Journal: Revue des Deux Mondes)
- Marion, 1867, Les ballons et les voyages aériens (Simple title: Balloons and air travel)
- Jourdanet, 1875, Influence de la pression de l'air sur la vie de l'homme (Simple title: Influence of air pressure on human life)
- Sibillot, 1890, Gay-Lussac Aéronaute (Simple title: Gay-Lussac Aéronaute)
- Sibillot, 1890, Gay-Lussac Aéronaute (Simple title: Gay-Lussac Aéronaute)
- Yon, 1893, Du froid dans les hautes régions de l'atmosphère (Simple title: From the cold in the high regions of the atmosphere, Journal: L'Aérophile)
- Yon, 1893, Du froid dans les hautes régions de l'atmosphère (Simple title: From the cold in the high regions of the atmosphere, Journal: L'Aérophile)
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