Toy balloon in "Swiss Family Robinson" (1813) and in "Moby Dick" (1851). The first rubber balloons were made by Professor Michael Faraday in 1824 for use in his experiments with hydrogen at the Royal Institution in London. "The caoutchouc is exceedingly elastic", he wrote in the Quarterly Journal of Science the same year. "Bags made of it...have been expanded by having air forced into them, until the caoutchouc was quite transparent, and when expanded by hydrogen they were so light as to form balloons with considerable ascending power..." Faraday made his balloons by cutting round two sheets of rubber laid together and
George Hart (physicist) George Hart (physicist) George A. Hart (fl. late 20th century) is a physicist and is best known in regard to his regular appearances on the Coast to Coast AM late-night radio talk show, and to a lesser extent for a discovery leading to an improvement of the rare gas halide excimer laser. The first excimer laser was invented in 1970 by Nikolai Basov, yet Dr. Hart continued to take credit for having invented the eximer laser on several occasions from 2012 to 2013 while appearing on the air on the Coast to Coast AM late-night talk show. Five years after