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1000 BCE
The First Kites
It is thought that the earliest use of kites was among the Chinese, approximately 2,800 years ago. The kite was said to be the invention of the famous 5th century BC Chinese philosophers Mozi and Lu Ban. By 549 AD, paper kites were being flown — in that year a paper kite was used as a message for a rescue mission. -
852 BCE
A king Tries to fly
Somewhere around 852 B.C., perhaps guided by his increasing interest in necromancy, a type of magic that involves communicating with the dead, Bladud decided to try it.2/04/2017 -
1485
da vinci designs the plane
Leonardo da Vinci made the first real studies of flight in the 1480s. He had over 200 drawings and sketches that illustrated his theories on flight. His ornithopter flying machine was an aircraft that would fly by flapping its wings, a design he created to show how humans could fly. -
Model Glider Design
Born in the São Paulo district of Santos, Brazil, in December 1685, Lourenço de Gusmão registered his first invention at the tender age of twenty, a device that could lift water from a stream to a height of approximately 100 metres, meaning that large quantities of water no longer needed to be carried up to the top of .. -
Hot air balloon flight
In 1782, while watching a fire in his fireplace, Joseph became interested in the "force" that caused the sparks and smoke to rise. He made a small bag out of silk and lit a fire under the opening at the bottom causing it to rise. The brothers thought the burning created a gas which they called "Montgolfier gas". -
Biplane design
Cayley established the modern configuration of an airplane as a fixed-wing flying machine with separate systems for lift, propulsion, and control as early as 1799 (see Silver Disc machine). In 1804 he flew the first successful glider model of which there is any record.