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China discovers the kite
The kite made for religius cerimounes made China think of flight -
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Humans fly like birds
Humans try for many centures to fly like birds by makeing wooden wings with feathers. -
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Hero and the Aeolipile
An acient Greek engineer developed a aeolipile that uses a jet streem that makes a creates a sphere to rotate -
Period: 400 to
Flight
The thout of man flying -
Jul 1, 1485
Leonardo da Vinci
Studied flight in 1480's made 100's of drawings that showed is idea of flight. -
Joseph and Jacques Montegolfer first hot air ballon
Both brothers were inventors were the first inventers of the first air ballon. They used fire to blow hot air to a silk bag. -
George Cayley's Glider
Geoge Cayley wanted to invent a way to let human's fly. He designed many moddles of a glider with wings with a currect shape. -
Otto Lilienthal
A German enginer who studied areodynamics and worked on a glider that would fly. He made the fist glider to have a man on it and fly for long distances. -
Samuel P. Langley
Samuel p. Langley was a astronomer. He built a modile of a plane called a areodome but his fist a tempt crashed -
Samuel P. Langley
Ceated the first model like airplane but failed his first atempt becous it was too heavey. -
Orville and Wilbir Wright the first flight
They were intergeed by the idea of flight. they hade created the flyer that involved a engine and a wind tonel for the wings.