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The History of Early Flight | Nothing’s New Under the Sun (2018x45)

Air date: Dec 26, 2018

The Wright Brothers weren’t the inventors of flight, but part in a long process of iterative technological development. That process is so convoluted that we should have trouble saying who was the inventor. ------------------------------------------------------------ references: Gordon, Arthur. American Heritage History of Flight. US: New Word City, Inc. 2015. https://amzn.to/2N6BZ7A Douglas, Deborah G. “The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Aerial Age.” Technology and Culture 45, No. 2 (April 2004), 363-367. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_aviation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_flying_machines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_lamp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-lifting_kite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo-copter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_ballooning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claims_to_the_first_powered_flight https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/g1096/a-brief-history-of-the-lightbulb/ ------------------------------------------------------------ SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE VIDEOS: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=CynicalCypher88 Support the channel through PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/CynicalHistorian or pick up some merchandise at SpreadShirt: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/cynicalhistorian LET'S CONNECT: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cynicalcypher88 Discord: https://discord.gg/Ukthk4U Twitter: https://twitter.com/Cynical_History ------------------------------------------------------------ Wiki: Early flying machines include all forms of aircraft studied or constructed before the development of the modern aeroplane by 1910. The story of modern flight begins more than a century before the first successful manned aeroplane, and the earliest aircraft thousands of years before. ------------------------------------------------------------ Hashtags: #history #flight #innovation