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Balloon Riots

2025-11-17 · 36 min · 26 entities

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    Link in episode "Balloon Riots": https://jstor.org/stable/231824
  • → references Hot Air Balloon Launch Riot person
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    Link in episode "Balloon Riots": https://daily.jstor.org/hot-air-balloon-launch-riot
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  • → hosted by iHeartPodcasts company
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  • → discusses History website
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  • → references Documents website
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    Link in episode "Balloon Riots": https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-41-02-0310
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    Link in episode "Balloon Riots": https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/12990254
  • → references Hot Air Balloon person
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    Link in episode "Balloon Riots": https://getty.edu/publications/artists-things/things/hot-air-balloon
  • → references Ldpd 7245144 000 website
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    Link in episode "Balloon Riots": https://archive.org/details/ldpd_7245144_000
  • → references The Melbourne Balloon Riot Of person
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    Link in episode "Balloon Riots": https://airminded.org/2017/03/23/the-melbourne-balloon-riot-of-1858
  • → references Blogs Magazine Monitor company
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    Link in episode "Balloon Riots": https://bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-28674654
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    Link in episode "Balloon Riots": https://bbc.com/future/article/20160419-the-victorians-who-flew-as-high-as-jets
  • → references Balloon Disaster person
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    Link in episode "Balloon Riots": https://cam.ac.uk/stories/balloon-disaster

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  • mentioned Stable website
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    Link in episode "Balloon Riots": https://jstor.org/stable/231824
  • references Stable website
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    Link in episode "Balloon Riots": https://jstor.org/stable/231824
  • mentioned History website
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  • mentioned Documents website
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    Link in episode "Balloon Riots": https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-41-02-0310
  • mentioned Newspaper website
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    Link in episode "Balloon Riots": https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/12990254
  • mentioned Ldpd 7245144 000 website
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    Link in episode "Balloon Riots": https://archive.org/details/ldpd_7245144_000
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    Link in episode "Balloon Riots": https://bbc.com/future/article/20160419-the-victorians-who-flew-as-high-as-jets
  • discusses History website
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    Feed category: History
  • references Documents website
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    Link in episode "Balloon Riots": https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-41-02-0310
  • references Newspaper website
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    Link in episode "Balloon Riots": https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/12990254
  • references Ldpd 7245144 000 website
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    Link in episode "Balloon Riots": https://archive.org/details/ldpd_7245144_000
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    Link in episode "Balloon Riots": https://bbc.com/future/article/20160419-the-victorians-who-flew-as-high-as-jets

persons 8

  • mentioned Hot Air Balloon Launch Riot person
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    Link in episode "Balloon Riots": https://daily.jstor.org/hot-air-balloon-launch-riot
  • references Hot Air Balloon Launch Riot person
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    Link in episode "Balloon Riots": https://daily.jstor.org/hot-air-balloon-launch-riot
  • mentioned Hot Air Balloon person
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    Link in episode "Balloon Riots": https://getty.edu/publications/artists-things/things/hot-air-balloon
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    Link in episode "Balloon Riots": https://airminded.org/2017/03/23/the-melbourne-balloon-riot-of-1858
  • mentioned Balloon Disaster person
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    Link in episode "Balloon Riots": https://cam.ac.uk/stories/balloon-disaster
  • references Hot Air Balloon person
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    Link in episode "Balloon Riots": https://getty.edu/publications/artists-things/things/hot-air-balloon
  • references The Melbourne Balloon Riot Of person
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "Balloon Riots": https://airminded.org/2017/03/23/the-melbourne-balloon-riot-of-1858
  • references Balloon Disaster person
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    Link in episode "Balloon Riots": https://cam.ac.uk/stories/balloon-disaster

companys 4

  • mentioned iHeartPodcasts company
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    Feed author/publisher: iHeartPodcasts
  • mentioned Blogs Magazine Monitor company
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    Link in episode "Balloon Riots": https://bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-28674654
  • hosted by iHeartPodcasts company
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    Feed author/publisher: iHeartPodcasts
  • references Blogs Magazine Monitor company
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    Link in episode "Balloon Riots": https://bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-28674654

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  • mentioned Society & Culture concept
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  • discusses Society & Culture concept
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Episode description as stored
Ballooning became a huge fad starting in the late 18th century, and there was a surprising amount of rioting associated with it. Fervor, excitement, and intoxication in some instances, meant that balloon events were prone to get out of control. Research: Bond, Elizabeth Andrews. “Popular Science and Public Participation.” From The Writing Public: Participatory Knowledge Production in Enlightenment and Revolutionary France. Cornell University Press. 2021. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv310vktg.8 Branson, Susan. “Scientific Americans.” Cornell University Press, 2022. Cornell University Press, 2022. Coxwell, Henry Tracey. “My Life and Balloon Experiences.” W.H. Allen. 1889. https://archive.org/details/mylifeandballoo02coxwgoog/ Daily National Intelligencer. “The Balloon, and Conflagration of Vauxhall.” 9/14/1819. https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83026172/1819-09-14/ed-1/?sp=2&q=vauxhall&r=0.48,-0.027,0.621,0.225,0 Franklin, Benjamin. “Benjamin Franklin to Ingenhousz, 16 January 1784.” https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-41-02-0310#BNFN-01-41-02-0310-fn-0005 “Hot-Air Balloon: Jean-François Janinet (1752–1814).” https://www.getty.edu/publications/artists-things/things/hot-air-balloon/#fnref8 Gillespie, Richard. “Ballooning in France and Britain, 1783-1786: Aerostation and Adventurism.” Isis, Vol. 75, No. 2 (June, 1984). https://www.jstor.org/stable/231824 Glaisher, James. “Travels in the Air.” R. Bentley. 1871. https://archive.org/details/ldpd_7245144_000 Holman, Brett. “The Melbourne balloon riot of 1858.” Airminded. 3/23/2017. https://airminded.org/2017/03/23/the-melbourne-balloon-riot-of-1858/ Jackson, Joseph. “Vauxhall Garden.” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. Vol. LVII. No. 4. 1933. Keen, Paul. “The ‘Balloonomania’: Science and Spectacle in 1780s England.” Eighteenth-Century Studies , Summer, 2006, Vol. 39, No. 4 (Summer, 2006). https://www.jstor.org/stable/30053707 Magazine Monitor. “Victorian Strangeness: The great balloon riot of 1864.” BBC. 8/9/2014. https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-28674654 Robbins, John. “Up in the Air: Balloonomania and Scientific Performance.” Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 48, No. 4, Special Issue: Performance. Summer 2015. Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24690309 Robson, David. “The Victorians who flew as high as jumbo jets.” BBC. 4/20/2016. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160419-the-victorians-who-flew-as-high-as-jets Smith, Zoe. “Disaster at 37,000 feet.” University of Cambridge. https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/balloon-disaster Soth, Amelia. “Hot Air Balloon Launch Riot!” JSTOR Daily. 2/3/2022. https://daily.jstor.org/hot-air-balloon-launch-riot/ Sparrow, Jeff. “Wrath and awe: a short history of balloons and their power to fire up mob fury.” The Guardian. 2/14/2023. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/15/wrath-and-awe-a-short-history-of-balloons-and-their-power-to-fire-up-mob-fury Sydney Morning Herald. “The Balloon Riot in the Domain: Death of Thomas Downs.” 12/19/1856. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/12990254 Sydney Morning Herald. “The Sydney Balloon.” Trove. 12/16/1856. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/12990120 The Rhode-Island American. “Riotous Proceedigns.” 9/14/1819. https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83025442/1819-09-14/ed-1/?sp=3&q=vauxhall&r=-0.14,1.265,0.686,0.248,0 Tucker, Jennifer. “Voyages of Discovery on Oceans of Air: Scientific Observation and the Image of Science in an Age of ‘Balloonacy.’” Osiris, 1996, Vol. 11, Science in the Field (1996). Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/301930 Wroth, Warwick. “Cremorne and the Later London Gardens.” London. Elliot Stock. 1907. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.