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Flyer"
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Page 2: The Bird Man - Rock
Carving from Swedish Bronze Age.
Page 3:
Alexander the Great c. 300 BC
Page 4:
Eilmer the Flying Monk 1010 AD
Page 5: Ornihopter - prone type - Leonardo da Vinci 1485 - 1500
Page 6:
Ornithopter - standing pilot - Leonardo da Vinci
Page 7:
Helicopter - Leonardo da Vinci
Page 8: Parachutes - Leonardo Da Vinci (1483)
and Veranzio (1617)
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9: Burratino and "The Flying Dragon" 1647
Page 10: Francesco Lana and his Flying Ship
described in "Prodomo" 1670
Page 11: Besnier flies with flappers 1678
Page 12: Gusmão and His Flying Machine Passarola
1709
Page 13: Emanuel Swedenborg and his "Machine to
Fly in the Weather" 1714
Page 14: De Bacqueville almost crosses the Seine
with wings c. 1742
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15: Bauer designs a fixed-wing monoplane 1764
Page 16: Meerwin made tests with his
ornthopter/glider 1781
Page
17: Blanchard builds his "flying boat", the ornithopter "Vaisseau Volant"
1781
Page 18: The First Montgolfier Hot-air Balloon -
4th of June, 1783
Page 19:Professor
Charles' Globe gets attacked (1783)
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20: First Montgolfier with Passengers - three Animals. 19th September,
1783.
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21: First Aerial Voyage in History. November 21, 1783.
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23 Making of Hydrogen Gas
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24: Vincenzo Lunardi - an Italian Balloonist in Britain (1784)
Page
25:The First Airscrew (1784)
Page 26: Måns, the Swedish Cat Makes a Flight and
gets a New Home 1784
Page 34: A Balloon Launching 250 km North of the
Arctic Circle in 1799
Page 38: Henson's Aerial Steam Carriage (1840)
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55: Franz Reichelt - A Modern Tower-jumper (1912)
Page 65: Henri Mignet's Pou du Ciel /Flying Flea
(1935)
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