List Of Aircraft (pre-1914)
This is a chronological list of pioneer aircraft built, planned or conceptualized before 1914. Entries here may or may not be repeated in the main List of aircraft pages. Before the 19th Century * 12000 BC Vailixi flying machines * 12000 BC Vimanika flying machines * 400 BC Archytas steam powered pigeon * 1485 Da Vinci Ornithopter * 1493 Da Vinci Helicopter * 1495 Da Vinci Aeroplane * 1648 Hautsch and Burattini Flying machine * 1655 Borelli and Hooke Ornithopter * 1670 Terzi Flying boat * 1678 Besnier Ornithopter * 1709 De Gusmao Steam airship * 1714 Swedenborg Monoplane * 1742 De Bacqueville Artificial wings * 1754 Lomonosov Helicopter * 1764 Bauer Ornithopter * 1768 Paucton Helicopter * 1772 Desforges Flying machine * 1781 Blanchard Flying machine * 1781 Meerwein Ornithopter * 1784 Blanchard Airship * 1784 Charles and Robert Airship * 1784 Gerard Ornithopter * 1784 Launoy and Bienvenu Helicopter * 1784 Meusnier Airship * 1784 Renaux Ornithopter * 1784 ...
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List Of Aircraft
The lists of aircraft are sorted in alphabetical order. Further reading The following reference sources, among many others, have been used to compile this list: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ...
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Carl Friedrich Meerwein
Carl Friedrich Meerwein (2 August 1737 – 6 December 1810) was a German civil engineer and aviation pioneer. Meerwein was born in Leiselheim. He built flying devices with moving wings. According to the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' he succeeded in flying with one of these devices, an ornithopter in 1781, at Giessen, Germany. Further attempts were less successful. There is a legend that he only survived one of his flights in 1784 because he hit exactly upon a dung pile.Untucht, Peter (2003) ''Freiburg und die Regio'' DuMont-Reiseverlag, Cologne, Germanypage 164 , in German "Meerwein, the architect of the Prince of Baden, built an orthopteric machine, and protested against the tendency of the aerostats which had just been invented." (Verne, ''Robur'') Meerwein died in Emmendingen, as a result of a fall from a horse. Notes Sources :''This article is based in part on material from the German Wikipedia The German Wikipedia (german: Deutschsprachige Wikipedia) is the German-langu ...
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Albrecht Berblinger
Albrecht Ludwig Berblinger (24 June 1770 – 28 January 1829), also known as the Tailor of Ulm, is famous for having constructed a working flying machine, presumably a hang glider. Early life Berblinger was the seventh child of a poor family. When he was 13 his father died and he was sent to an orphanage. There he was forced to become a tailor although he wanted to become a watchmaker. He became a master craftsman at 21, but he still was interested in mechanics. In his spare time in 1808, he invented the first artificial limb with a joint. Flight attempts One of Berblinger's inventions was what appears to be a hang glider. He worked on it for years, improving it and watching the flight of owls. People made fun of him and he was threatened with exclusion from the guild. He was ordered to pay a large fine for working outside of the guild. Nevertheless, he invested his whole income in his project. King Frederick I of Württemberg became interested in his work and sponsor ...
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Degen Ornithopter
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George Cayley
Sir George Cayley, 6th Baronet (27 December 1773 – 15 December 1857) was an English engineer, inventor, and aviator. He is one of the most important people in the history of aeronautics. Many consider him to be the first true scientific aerial investigator and the first person to understand the underlying principles and forces of flight and the first man to create the wire wheel. * * * In 1799, he set forth the concept of the modern aeroplane as a fixed-wing flying machine with separate systems for lift, propulsion, and control. He was a pioneer of aeronautical engineering and is sometimes referred to as "the father of aviation." He identified the four forces which act on a heavier-than-air flying vehicle: weight, lift, drag and thrust. Modern aeroplane design is based on those discoveries and on the importance of cambered wings, also proposed by Cayley. He constructed the first flying model aeroplane and also diagrammed the elements of vertical flight. He also designed the ...
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Diego Marín Aguilera
Diego Marín Aguilera (1757–1799) was a Spanish inventor who was an early aviation pioneer. Early life Born in Coruña del Conde, Marín became the head of his household after his father died and had to take care of his seven siblings. He worked as an agricultural laborer, tending his animals and fields. Marín spent long afternoons and days herding sheep in the surrounding fields. Inventions Early on, Marin devised several labor-saving devices, including a device that improved the functionality of a watermill on the Arandilla river; one that improved the working of a fulling-mill; and another used to improve the cutting of marble in the quarries of Espejón. He also came up with a device used to whip horses during the process of threshing, and another that made cloth pads. Flying machine Marín was inspired by the eagles he spotted while tending his animals and fields: he wanted to build a flying machine. For six years, he worked on one he invented. The machine was built ...
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Thibault Flying Machine
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Jean Baptiste Meusnier
Jean Baptiste Marie Charles Meusnier de la Place (Tours, 19 June 1754 — le Pont de Cassel, near Mainz, 13 June 1793) was a French mathematician, engineer and Revolutionary general. He is best known for Meusnier's theorem on the curvature of surfaces, which he formulated while he was at the École Royale du Génie (Royal School of Engineering). He also discovered the helicoid. He worked with Lavoisier on the decomposition of water and the evolution of hydrogen. Dirigible balloon Meusnier is sometimes portrayed as the inventor of the dirigible, because of an uncompleted project he conceived in 1784, not long after the first balloon flights of the Montgolfiers, and presented to the French Academy of Sciences. This concerned an elliptical balloon (''ballonet'') 84 metres long, with a capacity of 1,700 cubic metres, powered by three propellers driven by 80 men. The basket, in the form of a boat, was suspended from the canopy on a system of three ropes. Jacques Charles and ...
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Launoy And Bienvenu Helicopter
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