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Updated: May 19, 2025
Among the credulous the significance of the name of a people of Asia Minor, the Capnobates, 'those who travel by smoke, gave rise to the assertion that Montgolfier was not first in the field or rather in the air since surely this people must have been responsible for the first hot-air balloons.
A simple folk would naturally idealise the man and magnify his exploit, as they magnified the deeds of some strong man to make the legends of Hercules, and there, full-grown from a mere legend, is the first record of a pioneer of flying. Such a theory is not nearly so fantastic as that which makes the Capnobates, on the strength of their name, the inventors of hot-air balloons.
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