Balloon toys are very popular as they are commonly used on children’s’ parties.
Children love balloons. Let’s find out more about them and understand why!
- A balloon is a flexible bag that can be inflated with a gas.
- Normally this gas is helium, hydrogen or simply air.
- Helium can kinda change your voice if you inhale it.
- Before toy balloons were invented, people used to inflate pig bladders and animal intestines.
- Silver metalized balloons were invented in the 1970s.
- The reason why they were invented was for the New York City Ballet.
- The 1st hydrogen-filled ballon gas balloon was launched on August 27 in 1783 though.
- Its designers were the Charles brothers.
- The first rubber balloon was created in 1824.
- It was created by Professor Michael Faraday.
- He used them to store gases!
- Helium balloons have also been used in… other planets!
- The Russian space team probes Vega 1 and Vega 2 used helium balloons to drop scientific instruments.
- The planet that “hosted” the ballons was the planet Venus in1985.
- The first gas balloon was destroyed by terrified villagers.
- It landed in their village, but they didn’t know what it was.
- The first living beings that flew in a balloon were a sheep called, a duck, and a rooster.
- Latex balloons are biodegradable.
- Balloons have also been used for military causes.
- They have been used as an observation point.
- There also some small balloons that are filled with water.
- They are called water balloons and they are used as toys.
- Also, people use ballon in order to decorate birthday parties, school events, and weddings.
- Balloons can also be used in… medicine.
- More specifically angioplasty is a surgical procedure in which very small balloons are inserted into blocked or partially blocked blood vessels near the heart.
- The word balloon comes from the Italian word pallone.
- Pallone means a large ball.
- In the 1570s balloon was a popular game.
- By the 1590s the word balloon started describing the ball by itself.
