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His brother was illustrator Albert Tissandier (1839-1906). They were often seen together. His son Paul Tissandier also became a well known aviator in his own right. BIOGRAPHY Gaston Tissandier was born in Paris in 1843. He studied Chemistry and in 1864 became the head of the experimental laboratory of Union nationales. He was also a teacher at Association polytechnique. His interest in Meteorology led him to take up Aviation . His first trip in the air was conducted at Calais in 1868 together with Claude-Jules Dufour , where his balloon drifted out over the sea and was brought back by an air stream of opposite direction in a higher layer of air. In September 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War , he managed to leave the besieged Paris by balloon. His most adventurous airtrip, however, took place in April 1875. Together with Joseph Croce-Spinelli and Théodore Sivel , he was able to reach in a balloon the unheard of altitude of 8,600 metres. Both of his companions died from breathing the thin air. Tissandier survived, but became deaf. In 1883 , Tissandier fit a Siemens electric motor to an Airship , thus creating the first electric-powered flight. Tissandier reported his meteorological observations to the French Academy Of Sciences . In 1873 he founded the weekly scientific magazine '' La Nature '', which he edited until 1896, after which it was continued by others. He also authored several books: WORKS
Besides these scientific works, Tissandier also published several titles for the youth, such as ''Les récréations scientifiques ou l'enseignement par les jeux'' (1880), perhaps the very first title in the genre of books of simple science experiments that anybody can conduct in their own home. Its chapters were in part based on the column "physique sans appareils" (physics without apparatus) in ''La Nature''. SEE ALSO REFERENCES This text is based in part on articles from old public domain encyclopedias in German and Swedish . EXTERNAL LINKS
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