Ed Yost own interests turned toward reviving the lost practice of manned hot-air ballooning. This technology had first been invented in France by in the late 18th century by pioneers led by the Montgolfier brothers, but under the Montgolfier system, the balloon's air was heated by a ground fire prior to the balloon being released. The inherent danger of this type of balloon flight led to the system being abandoned when hydrogen and later helium became available. One of Yost's key engineering insights was that a hot-air balloon could be made to carry its own fuel. The invention of relatively light burners
Gregory and the Hot Air Balloon characters as well as minigames are found in the game. Gregory and the Hot Air Balloon Gregory and the Hot Air Balloon is a children's video game developed by Capitol Multimedia, Inc., published by Brøderbund and released in 1996 for the Macintosh and Windows and Windows 3.x systems. In the town of Acorn Hollow, Gregory "The Party Freak" Chuckwood and his pet lizard Newt go for a ride in a hot air balloon, but they drift away to a faraway place. With the balloon downed, Gregory needs to find the scattered balloon parts to get it going again so he