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Wright Brothers vs. Smithsonian: The Bitter Feud Over Who Invented the Airplane
Rival claims to the first powered flight milestone put the Wright Flyer against the "Aerodrome," a plane built by then-Smithsonian boss, Samuel P. Langley. By 1928 Orville Wright was so incensed by the ongoing lack of official recognition that he sent the original Wright Flyer to the UK national science museum, where it stayed (underground) until the end of WWII. (www.seattletimes.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Wasn't Jolly old St. Nick around before any of these folks?
Ooh, controversy, isn't his sleigh a towed vehicle? Does that class it as a glider?ð
Reindeer powered.
Like Chris Columbus discovering America. First of all those Indians in the West Indies did not want to be discovered and they told him to discover his butt out of here. No one discover this continent. It was already here like all the other continents.
Not the first time that that Smithsonian institute has taken history and made it to suit their own purposes
Like many inventions, technology advances and different people put 2 and 2 together and come up with similar ideas. "Oh, like THAT! We can do it too..." Always a race to be "first"... ;-)