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
English Grammar in Use English Grammar in Use <BR> English Grammar in Use is a self-study reference and practice book for intermediate to advanced students of English. The book was written by Raymond Murphy and published by Cambridge University Press. The earliest edition as seen on Google books was released in 1985. This release contained 379 pages and had an ISBN of 9780521287234. A well-known edition of the book is the second edition, which was released in 1991 and had an ISBN of 9780521336833. Most recently the fourth edition was released. Many other reprints of these three main editions have been published. The book