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 Originally Posted by Penneywize
Am I missing something? wasn't the first powered flight in very early 1900s
LOL yeah, the Wright brothers was the first thing that came to mind. However, upon some digging, I found out that:
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The first generally recognized human flight took place in Paris in 1783. Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes went 8 km (5 miles) in a hot air balloon invented by the Montgolfier brothers
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The first published paper on aviation was "Sketch of a Machine for Flying in the Air" by Emanuel Swedenborg published in 1716.
3) The first man to actually fly a heavier than air aircraft was a chap named Samuel Pierpont Langley, some time before the much more popular Wright brothers ever did.
I know "some people" frown at Wikipedia, but here's the link:
Aviation history - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
While it is correct that the powered flight probably happened until the early 20th century, the theories and overall tech had to develop from since the people took to the skies, and that is why I rounded that number to about 250 years. But still, we have been able to accomplish a whole lot in a proverbial blink of an eye. I wonder what the future brings.
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