Who Invented Balloons?

Early balloons were produced using pig bladders and creature intestines.The Aztecs made the primary inflatable models utilizing feline digestion tracts, which were then introduced to the divine beings as a penance. There are references to inflatables made of whale digestive tract in Swiss Family Robinson (1813) and in Moby Dick (1851). 

The principal elastic inflatables were made by Professor Michael Faraday in 1824 for use in his examinations with hydrogen at the Royal Institution in London. "The caoutchouc is really versatile," he wrote in the Quarterly Journal of Science that year. "Packs made of it...have been extended by having air constrained into them, until the caoutchouc was very straightforward, and when extended by hydrogen they were so light as to shape inflatables with significant climbing power...." Faraday made his inflatables by cutting cycle two sheets of elastic laid together and squeezing the edges together. The cheap elastic welded naturally, and within the inflatable was scoured with flour to forestall the contradicting surfaces combining. 

Latex elastic toy inflatables were presented by pioneer elastic maker Thomas Hancock the next year as a do-it-without anyone's help unit comprising of a jug of elastic arrangement and a gathering needle. Vulcanized toy inflatables, which dissimilar to the previous kind were unaffected by changes in temperature, were first produced by J.G. Ingram of London in 1847 and can be viewed as the model of present day toy inflatables. 

Since the 1890s, paper inflatables called kamifūsen have been well known kids' toys in Japan. 

During the 1920s Neil Tillotson planned and delivered a latex swell with a feline's face and ears from a cardboard structure which he cut by hand with some scissors. He figured out how to make his first offer of these inflatables with a request for 15 gross to be conveyed for the yearly Patriots' Day Parade on April 19, 1931. The principal shaded inflatables were sold at the 1933-34 Chicago World's Fair.