Georges Besançon
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Georges Besançon
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Georges Besançon (1866–1934) founded and edited the aeronautical journal L'Aérophile. Besançon was a balloonist ("aeronaut") and journalist.
Besançon helped train the later-celebrated balloonist Salomon Andrée, probably in the late 1880s. In 1892, Besançon and scientist Gustave Hermite sent instruments on fabric or paper balloons into the upper atmosphere for meteorological research.
In 1901, Hermite and Besançon sent up small instrumented rubber balloons that were designed to expand until at a
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