In 1908, a 15-year-old girl named Georgia “Tiny” Broadwick leapt from a hot-air balloon and floated more than 1,000 feet down ...

ST. LOUIS, June 6. -- In a dirigible balloon of his own make, and probably one of the strangest aerial craft in the county, John Berry, a St. Louis inventor, will sail from his workshop on North ...

The invention of the balloon struck the men and women of the late 18th century like a thunderbolt. Enormous crowds gathered in Paris to watch one balloon after another rise above the city rooftops, ...