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A Doctor Built a Balloon Almost Entirely Out of Paper. Then He Caused the First Aviation Disaster in History.

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Balloon fever swept Europe in the 1780s. In Tullamore, Ireland, it left almost nothing standing.

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A Doctor Built a Balloon Almost Entirely Out of Paper. Then He Caused the First Aviation Disaster in History.

Balloon fever swept Europe in the 1780s. In Tullamore, Ireland, it left almost nothing standing.

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