History Who Really Invented the Airplane Part 1 - Trivia-Library.com - 0 views
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Leonardo da Vinci designed a flying machine in the 15th century, and by the 19th century men were airborne in hot-air balloons, gliders, and huge kites.
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And so, at the end of the 19th century, enthusiasts around the world joined in the race to invent the first flying machine.
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In the early 1870s he created an ornithopter, an engine to which was attached flapping wings, but it failed to fly
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In order to fly, he decided, a machine must have fixed wings and an engine capable of lifting it off the ground