Flight

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  • George Cayley publishes classic treatise on aviation.

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    The invention of flight

  • William Henson's design for aerial steam carriage is published.

  • George Cayley's biplane design is published.

  • Henri Giffard's steam-powered airship makes first flight.

  • Wilbur Wright is born.

  • Alphonse Pénaud experiments with twisted rubber to power model helicopter.

  • Orville Wright is born.

  • Otto Lilienthal publishes Der Vogelflug als Grundlage der Fliegekunst.

  • Otto Lilienthal begins successful gliding experiments.

  • Otto Lilienthal flies biplane gliders.

  • Octave Chanute begins biplane gliding experiments in Michigan.

  • Samuel P. Langley produces successful steam-powered models that fly.

  • Otto Lilienthal crashes while gliding and dies.

  • Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian aviator, circles Eiffel Tower in airship.

  • Samuel Langley's full-size manned "Aerodrome A" crashes on take-off.

  • Orville and Wilbur Wright make first powered, sustained, and controlled flight in a heavier-than-air flying machine.

  • Alberto Santos-Dumont makes first successful powered flight in Europe.

  • Louis Bleriot, French aviator, makes first airplane crossing of English Channel.

  • Robert H. Goddard makes first free flight of a liquid-fueled rocket.

  • Charles A. Lindbergh completes first solo, nonstop trans-Atlantic flight.

  • Frank Whittle, British inventor, invents the jet engine.

  • Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly a solo non-stop trans-Atlantic flight.

  • A modern airliner, Boeing 247, flies for the first time.

  • Germany's Heinkel 178 is the first fully jet-propelled aircraft to fly.

  • Charles E. Yeager pilots Bell X-1--the first aircraft to exceed the speed of sound in level flight.

  • Soviet Union launches first man-made earth satellite, Sputnik 1.

  • Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, is the first man in space.

  • John H. Glenn, Jr., is the first American to orbit the earth.

  • U.S. astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., are the first to walk on the moon.

  • First space station, Soviet Salyut 1, is launched into earth's orbit.

  • U.S. launches the first reusable spacecraft, the Columbia shuttle.

  • First two modules of the International Space Station are launched and joined together in orbit.

  • First crew arrives to take up residence in the International Space Station.