History of flight

Leonardo da vinci:Ornithopter

May 28, 1485

Leonardo da vinci invents theOrnithopter. This machine had over 100 drawing and was never built.

Emanuel Swedenborg - Daedalian

Apr 11, 1714

Thi was supose to be a glider slash hot air balloon.

Joseph montgoifier

Mar 20, 1783

He was the first person to invent thea working glider. the glider only brought the person a few feet.

George cayley

Oct 2, 1813

George cayley invented the first ever known glider.

William Samuel Henson - The Aerial Steam Carriage

Apr 12, 1843

This flying ship used steam to fly.

John Stringfellow - The Stringfellow Machines

Apr 11, 1858

This airship used long sheets of paper as wings

Le Comte Ferdinand Charles Honore Phillipe d'Esterno - Soaring Machine & The Laws Of Flight

Apr 11, 1864

This ais glider was ment to look like a humming bird

Jean Marie Le Bris - The Artificial Albatross

Apr 12, 1864

This half car half ship looked lioke a bird. Its blue print ment to look like a bird

Louis Pierre Mouillard - The Empire Of The Air

Mar 6, 1865

This glider was ment to look like an eagle.the only problen was balance.

James William Butler & Edmund Edwards - The Steam-Jet Dart

Aug 26, 1865

James W. Butler and Edmund Edwards' "Steam Dart" flying machine derived, obviously, from a folded paper plane.

1866 to 1869 - Jan Wnek - Gliding Flight

Oct 20, 1868

this was the first time people tride to glide not fly

1869 - Frederick Marriott - The Avitor Hermes, Jr

Mar 30, 1869

this flying machine was ment to have a the first engine. in the end it was a newer hot air balloon

Alphonse Penaud - The Planophore & The Penaud Toy Helicopter

Apr 12, 1871

design for a large amphibious monoplane with retractable landing gear and twin tractor propellers was very well thought out.

Charles F. Ritchel - Hand-powered Airship

May 9, 1878

this would be the first hand powered machine to fly

Victor Tatin - The Compressed Air Monoplane

Feb 14, 1879

This would be the first plane that uses compressed air to make it fly.

J. B. Biot - The Biot Kite

Jun 11, 1880

Biot's first interest in aeronautical matters was designing and was a flying kites

Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim - The Test-Rig

Jan 7, 1894

Hiram Maxim, who was born at Brockway's Mills, Maine, made a fortune from his invention of the Maxim machine gun, and he used a good bit of that fortune

James Means - A Soaring Machine, The Problem of Manflight & The Aeronautical Annuals

Jun 11, 1894

This was ment to loook like a circle glider. It used wind, no motor.

William Frost - The Airship Glider

Oct 25, 1896

Frost wanted to make a ship that could glide over air wothout an engine.

Karl Jatho - The Jatho Biplane

Jul 28, 1903

Between August and November of 1903, Karl Jatho tested his large flying machine near Hannover, Germany.