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Welcome to the Flying Machines web site. Before the Wright Brothers achieved the first successful heavier-than-air controlled flight on December 17, 1903, hundreds of women and men attempted to fly, in airships, gliders and aeroplanes, and many did go aloft in gas and hot-air balloons. This site documents a number of those pre-Wright attempts at heavier-than-air flight, as well as significant events and thoughts which contributed to the ultimate success of powered, heavier-than-air human flight.
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1485 to 1903
| ca. 1485 - Leonardo da Vinci - The Ornithopter |
| 1714 - Emanuel Swedenborg - Daedalian |
| 1799 - Sir George Cayley - The Forces Of Flight |
| 1843 - William Samuel Henson - The Aerial Steam Carriage |
| 1848 & 1868 - John Stringfellow - The Stringfellow Machines |
| 1849 - Rufus Porter - The New York to California Aerial Transport |
| 1857 & 1867 - Jean Marie Le Bris - The Artificial Albatross |
| 1857 to 1877 - Felix & Louis du Temple de la Croix - Steam Powered Monoplane |
| 1864 - Le Comte Ferdinand Charles Honore Phillipe d'Esterno - Soaring Machine & The Laws Of Flight |
| 1865 - Louis Pierre Mouillard - The Empire Of The Air |
| 1865 - James William Butler & Edmund Edwards - The Steam-Jet Dart |
| 1866 - Francis Herbert Wenham - Aerial Locomotion |
| 1866 to 1869 - Jan Wnek - Gliding Flight |
| 1869 - Frederick Marriott - The Avitor Hermes, Jr. |
| 1871 - Alphonse Penaud - The Planophore & The Penaud Toy Helicopter |
| 1875 & 1879 - Thomas Moy - The Moy Aerial Steamer & The Military Kite |
| 1878 - Charles F. Ritchel - Hand-powered Airship |
| 1879 - Victor Tatin - The Compressed Air Monoplane |
| 1880 - Gaston Biot - The Biot Kite |
| 1883 - Alexandre Goupil - Aerial Locomotion |
| 1883 to 1911 - John Joseph Montgomery - Monoplane & Tandem-Wing Gliders |
| 1884 - Aleksandr Fyodorovich Mozhaiski - The Mozhaiski Monoplane |
| 1884 to 1907 - Horatio Frederick Phillips - Sustainers |
| 1887 - Massia & Biot - The Massia-Biot Glider |
| 1889 - Pichancourt - Mechanical Birds |
| 1889 to 1893 - Lawrence Hargrave - Flapping Propellers & Box Kites |
| 1890 & 1897 - Clement Ader - The Ader Bats |
| 1891 - Chuhachi Ninomiya - The Tamamushi |
| 1891 to 1896 - Otto Lilienthal - Master Of Gliding Flight |
| 1894 - Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim - The Test-Rig |
| 1894 to 1897 - James Means - A Soaring Machine, The Problem of Manflight & The Aeronautical Annuals |
| 1895 - Pablo Suarez - The Suarez Glider |
| 1896 - Arthur Stentzel - The Stentzel Ornithopter |
| 1896 - Percy Sinclair Pilcher - The Hawk |
| 1896 - Octave Chanute & Augustus Herring - Gliding Machines |
| 1896 - William Paul Butusov - Albatross Soaring Machine |
| 1896 - William Frost - The Airship Glider |
| 1896 to 1903 - Samuel Pierpont Langley - The Aerodromes |
| 1898 - Edson F. Gallaudet - The Gallaudet Wing Warping Kite |
| 1898 - Lyman Wiswell Gilmore, Jr. - The Gilmore Monoplane |
| 1901 - Wilhelm Kress - The Waterborne Aeroplane |
| 1901 - Gustave Whitehead - The Whitehead Albatross & The Whitehead No. 21 |
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| 1903 - Richard William Pearse - The Pearse Monoplane |
| 1903 - Karl Jatho - The Jatho Biplane |
| 1903 to 1904 - Guido Dinelli - The Aereoplano |
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Pioneer Aerial Photographer
Paris, France, ca. 1858
