pomóżcie napisać streszczenie tego ;) Animals in the Air Can you believe that the history of the hot-air balloon all began with a sheep, a duck and a chicken? One day in 1777, Joseph Montgolfier was relaxing in front of the fire with his laundry drying nearby. After a while, he noticed that one of his shirts had started to float upwards. The young mas was curious about what was happening, so he threw some small pieces of paper into the fireplace to see if the same thing happened to them. When he saw them coming out of the chimney, he came to the conclusion that smoke had the power to lift things up and carry them throught the air. Joseph loved science and wanted to become an inventor, so he started trying to think of a craft that would be able to capture smoke and heat and lift people off ground. Along with his brother, Jacques, he began performing experiments on something that later became the first hot-air balloon. The Montgolfier brothers quiclky realised that it was heat and not smoke that had the power to lift things. On 19 th September 1783, they presented their first hot-air balloon, which was made from paper and cloth. They burned some straw underneath it and heat helped the balloon to float. As this was its first trip, the Motngolfier brothers were too nervous to go up in the ballon themselves. So, instead they put a sheep, a duck and a chicken in the basket that hung below the balloon for the two -mile journey. The new invention was a great success and the animals landed safe and sound. A huge crowd, incuding some members of the French royal family gathered to watch the balloon floating high in the sky. Shortly afterwards, the brothers asked the king for permission to send men up in the balloon. The king agreed, and the first flight involving human passengers took place in Paris on 21 st November 1783, with great success. The balloon reached a height of around 150 metres as it floated over the Paris rooftops, starting a long tradiotion of hot-air ballooning.