History of transport balloons filled with hot air were used in the first half of the 19th century and saw considerable action in several mid-century wars, most notably the American Civil War, where balloons provided observation during the Siege of Petersburg. Apart from some scattered reference in ancient and medieval records, resting on slender evidence and in need of interpretation, the earliest clearly verifiable human flight took place in Paris in 1783, when Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes went in a hot air balloon invented by the Montgolfier brothers. The Wright brothers made the first sustained, controlled and powered heavier-than-air
Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century by Maurice Noble and the backgrounds produced by Phil DeGuard. Uncredited is the noteworthy quotation of "Powerhouse" by Raymond Scott in the score by Stalling. This cartoon is available on Disc 2 of Volume 1 of the "Looney Tunes Golden Collection" and on Disc 2 of the "" Blu-ray box set, with the cartoon restored in high definition, as well as Disc 1 of "The Essential Daffy Duck". Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century Duck Dodgers in the 24½ Century (spoken as "twenty-fourth-and-a-half") is a 1952 Merrie Melodies color cartoon from Warner Bros., first released on July 25, 1953, that