Tech over time

By Broganmargaret
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    China

    The discovery of the kite that could fly in the air by the Chinese started humans thinking about flying.
  • Jan 1, 1480

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Leonardo da Vinci
    Leonardo da Vinci made the first real studies of flight in the 1480's. He had over 100 drawings that illustrated his theories on flight.

  • Progress in Flying

    Octave Chanute published Progress in Flying Machines

  • Flyer

    Flyer
    The "Flyer" lifted from level ground to the north of Big Kill Devil Hill, North Carolina, at 10:35 a.m.

  • brothers

    brothers
    Wilbur piloted the Flyer III for 39 minutes and about 24 miles of circles around Huffman Prairie

  • First Flight

    Calbriath Rodgers made the first flight across the United States

  • NASA

    after an energy crisis sent fuel prices skyward, Richard Whitcomb, who was a NASA aerodynamicist, published a paper that compared a wing with a winglet and the same wing with a simple extension to increase its spa

  • IAA

    the International Academy of Astronauts (IAA), which has a commission devoted to space and society, sponsored the first international conference on space and society in Budapest, Hungary