Big Bang in a Tin Can

But from this house how may we get away Where is thy coach, thy horses, servants, where  

For the bold trip we are about to take You must no heavy bundle make. 

Will soon convey us out of sight Of this dull spot. 

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, The First Part , Faust s Study 

A plaque in the Jardin desTuileries in Paris reminds us that the physicists Charles and Robert were the first to fill a balloon with flammable air (hydrogen) in 1783. 

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