James Tytler

James Tytler

December 17, 1745 – January 11, 1804
Countries: United Kingdom, USA
Place of Birth: Fearn, Angus, Scotland
Place of Death: Salem, Massachusetts
Categories: Poetry

James Tytler was a Scottish apothecary and the editor of the second edition of Encyclopedia Britannica. Tytler became the first person in Britain to fly by ascending in a hot air balloon (1784)

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