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Ed Yost

Ed Yost
Ed Yost, American inventor of the modern hot air balloon (d. 2007)

Paul Edward Yost was the American inventor of the modern hot air balloon and is referred to as the "Father of the Modern Day Hot-Air Balloon." He worked for a high-altitude research division of General Mills in the early 1950s until he left to establish Raven Industries in 1956, along with several colleagues from General Mills.

30 June 1919

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