• Specific flexible containers:
  • Toy balloon
    Toy balloon
    A toy balloon is an inflatable object which is often made of plastic or natural, biodegradable rubber.-History:Prior to the invention of rubber balloons by Michael Faraday in 1824, balloons were made from pig bladders and animal intestines....
    
    
  • Balloon (aircraft)
    Balloon (aircraft)
    A balloon is a type of aircraft that remains aloft due to its buoyancy. A balloon travels by moving with the wind. It is distinct from an airship, which is a buoyant aircraft that can be propelled through the air in a controlled manner....
    
    
    • Hot air balloon
      Hot air balloon
      The hot air balloon is the oldest successful human-carrying flight technology. It is in a class of aircraft known as balloon aircraft. On November 21, 1783, in Paris, France, the first untethered manned flight was made by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes in a hot air...
      
      
    • Gas balloon
      Gas balloon
      A gas balloon is any balloon that stays aloft due to being filled with a gas less dense than air or lighter than air . A gas balloon may also be called a Charlière for its inventor, the Frenchman Jacques Charles. Today, familiar gas balloons include large blimps and small rubber party balloons...
      
      
    • Weather balloon
      Weather balloon
      A weather or sounding balloon is a balloon which carries instruments aloft to send back information on atmospheric pressure, temperature, humidity and wind speed by means of a small, expendable measuring device called a radiosonde...
      
      
    • High-altitude balloon
    • Research balloon
      Research balloon
      Research balloons are balloons that are used for scientific research. They are usually unmanned, filled with a lighter-than-air gas like helium, and fly at high altitudes....
      
      
    • Observation balloon
      Observation balloon
      Observation balloons are balloons that are employed as aerial platforms for intelligence gathering and artillery spotting. Their use began during the French Revolutionary Wars, reaching their zenith during World War I, and they continue in limited use today....
      
      
    • Solar balloon
      Solar balloon
      A solar balloon is a balloon that gains buoyancy when the air inside is heated by the sun's radiation, usually with the help of black or dark balloon material. The heated air inside the solar balloon expands and has lower density than the surrounding air. As such, a solar balloon is similar to a...
      
      
• Ballooning (spider)
  Ballooning (spider)
  Ballooning is a term used for the mechanical kiting that many spiders, especially small species, as well as certain mites and some caterpillars use to disperse through the air. Many small spiders use gossamer or especially fine silk to lift themselves off a surface or use the silk as an anchor in...
  
  , riding, by a spider, on a wind-driven spider-silk structure
• Speech balloon
  Speech balloon
  Speech balloons are a graphic convention used most commonly in comic books, comic strips and cartoons to allow words to be understood as representing the speech or thoughts of a given character in the comic...
  
  , including thought balloon, scream balloon, etc.
• Balloon, member of one of the classes of fairy chess pieces
• Construction technique of balloon framing
• Balloon (band)
• Balloon (typeface)
  Balloon (typeface)
  Balloon is a brush script commonly used for signage or display purposes. It was designed in 1939 by Max R. Kaufmann, for American Type Founders, in response to Howard Allen Trafton's Cartoon, cut for Bauer Type Foundry in 1936. It had no lowercase letters and was cast in Light, Bold, and Extra Bold...
  
  
• Brandy balloon
  Snifter
  A snifter — also called a balloon — is a type of stemware, a short-stemmed glass whose vessel has a wide bottom and a relatively narrow top. It is mostly used to serve aged brown spirits such as brandy and whisky...
  
  
• Economic bubble
  Economic bubble
  An economic bubble is "trade in high volumes at prices that are considerably at variance with intrinsic values"...
  
  
• Trial balloon
  Trial balloon
  A trial balloon is information sent out to the media in order to observe the reaction of an audience. It can be used by companies sending out press releases to judge reaction by customers, or it can be used by politicians who deliberately leak information on a policy change under consideration...
  
  , action to covertly gauge public interest
• Balloon help
  Balloon help
  Balloon help was a help system introduced by Apple Computer in their 1991 release of System 7.0. The name referred to the way the help text was displayed, in "balloons", like those containing the words in a comic strip...
  
  , a help system introduced by Apple Computer in their 1991 release of System 7.0
• BBC One 'Balloon' idents, better known as simply "Balloon", a series of television idents for BBC One
  BBC One
  BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...
  
   from 1997-2000.

See also

• Balloon payment mortgage
  Balloon payment mortgage
  A balloon payment mortgage is a mortgage which does not fully amortize over the term of the note, thus leaving a balance due at maturity. The final payment is called a balloon payment because of its large size. Balloon payment mortgages are more common in commercial real estate than in...
  
  
• List of balloon uses, terms containing the word
• Ballon (disambiguation)
• Balun
  Balun
  A balun is a type of electrical transformer that can convert electrical signals that are balanced about ground to signals that are unbalanced , and the reverse. They are also often used to connect lines of differing impedance...
  
  , an impedance converter
• Pneumatic bladder
• Pig bladder
  Pig bladder
  Pig bladder is the bladder of a domestic pig, similar to the human urinary bladder. Today, this hollow organ has various applications in medicine, and in traditional cuisines and customs...