The balls at the holiday indispensable decoration without them no cost, no . every child knows that the balls on the feast of the important part and I will tell you about their origin
Looking at modern balloons, many people think that this bright, nice toy became available only recently. Some, more knowledgeable, believe that the balloons appeared somewhere in the middle of the last century, simultaneously with the beginning of the technological revolution.
And it really isn't! History balls, filled with air, started much earlier. Only now looked great-great-grandfathers our balls quite different now.
First reached mention about the manufacture of flying in the air balls are found in the Karelian manuscripts. They describe how to create such a ball, made of... whale skin and bull! As the Chronicles of the XII century tell us that in Karelian villages balloon had almost every family. And with the help of such balls ancient Karelians partially solved the problem of off-road - balls helped overcome the distance between settlements. But such travel, alas, were quite dangerous: the shell from the skins of animals could not resist the pressure of air for a long time - that is, in other words, these balloons were explosive. And so, in the end, were stirring legend, which can be whether to believe or not to believe...
every child knows that the balls on the feast of the important part and I will tell you about their origin
Looking at modern balloons, many people think that this bright, nice toy became available only recently. Some, more knowledgeable, believe that the balloons appeared somewhere in the middle of the last century, simultaneously with the beginning of the technological revolution.
And it really isn't! History balls, filled with air, started much earlier. Only now looked great-great-grandfathers our balls quite different now.
First reached mention about the manufacture of flying in the air balls are found in the Karelian manuscripts. They describe how to create such a ball, made of... whale skin and bull! As the Chronicles of the XII century tell us that in Karelian villages balloon had almost every family. And with the help of such balls ancient Karelians partially solved the problem of off-road - balls helped overcome the distance between settlements. But such travel, alas, were quite dangerous: the shell from the skins of animals could not resist the pressure of air for a long time - that is, in other words, these balloons were explosive. And so, in the end, were stirring legend, which can be whether to believe or not to believe...