In the early 1900s, professor Michael Faraday experimented successfully floating latex balloons wholesale that he had inflated with Hydrogen. In the following years, as toys, the best wholesale balloons were manufactured and filled with the amazing gas. This gas causes balloons to rise and ascend quite high. The new entertainment brought a lot of joy and amusement and people´s fascination for balloons grew all over the world. Wholesale party balloons were used for celebrations, races, education, experiments, political campaigns and commercial advertisements.
Nevertheless, hydrogen was proven quite dangerous as it is fairly volatile and easily explodes. Lead randomly by the wind, hydrogen-filled balloons could float to a site of combustible material and explode and cause a fire. It did happen.
After a few accidents, around 1914, the Firemen Department of New York was concerned and tried to ban the use of Hydrogen in toy balloons. But it was not until 8 years later, that New York City finally banned its use, after an incident during a city function. Someone accidentally caused the explosion of some of the wholesale balloon decorations and an officer was badly burned
Besides the danger, while they lasted, hydrogen balloons delivered a lot of adventure, joy and entertainment worldwide.
A 1929 magazine reported that a Mickey Mouse shaped balloon that was released somewhere in the United States, floated all the way across the Atlantic Ocean -till it lost part of its gas- and ended up landing in Africa, where it startled a group of bewildered locals.
A man in Pennsylvania, wanting to know how far a wholesale balloon could travel, released one bearing his name and contact . He later got voice that it had been picked up by a fisherman in Singapore.
Another interesting activity was some popular wholesale balloon races. Starting in Chicago, some balloons were found in North Carolina and Virginia. One traveled as fast as 50 miles per hour, being picked 600 miles away.
The scientific and military communities -prior to WWI- used these balloons as probes to formulate the ascension and flight of much larger balloons, leading later to the construction of the giant Zeppelins. This information later was used to probe the air currents over the earth and calculate the altitude the airplanes could fly against the wind, which assisted early aviation´s speed.
Though hydrogen had one tenth more lifting power than any other gas, because of its danger, was eventually replaced by the much safer gas Helium. Nowadays you can find helium balloons wholesale in any balloon wholesaler nearby.
