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Chinese and Flight
✓✓ Emperor Shun escaped prison by donning the work clothes
of a bird
Kei Kung, Wan Hoo, Ki-Kung-Shi
100 BC- Invented the kite
900 AD- Invented gunpowder
1100 AD- Built simple rockets
Greece and Rome
,✓✓ Gods depicted with wings and pegasus
Icarus and Daedalus
Seal from Babylonia with King Etena on an eagle
Kai Kawus, King of Persia
Alexander the Great
Two Trends in History of Flight
✓✓ People have always had the desire to fly
Since people did not have the natural ability to fly like birds,
flight depended on their ability to make machines to carry them
aloft
Ornithopter
,✓✓ Designed by Leonardo da Vinci
Flying machines kept aloft and propelled by flapping wings
Leonardo da Vinci
✓✓ 1452-1519
First designs of parachute and helicopter
Importance of center of gravity, pressure, and streamlining
Obsessed with the idea of man flying like birds
Ballast
✓✓ Heavy substance used to control ascent and descent
Francesco de Lana
, ✓✓ 1670, professor of math, Jesuit priest
Wrote about aerial ship carried by four large spheres
First scientific record of a vacuum balloon
Also wrote about military uses for balloons
Laurenco de Gusmao
✓✓ 1709, Jesuit priest
Demonstrated a small hot air balloon for king of Portugal
Henry Cavendish
✓✓ 1766, English chemist
discovered flammable air (hydrogen)
Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier
Detailed Verified Answers for
Accuracy
Chinese and Flight
✓✓ Emperor Shun escaped prison by donning the work clothes
of a bird
Kei Kung, Wan Hoo, Ki-Kung-Shi
100 BC- Invented the kite
900 AD- Invented gunpowder
1100 AD- Built simple rockets
Greece and Rome
,✓✓ Gods depicted with wings and pegasus
Icarus and Daedalus
Seal from Babylonia with King Etena on an eagle
Kai Kawus, King of Persia
Alexander the Great
Two Trends in History of Flight
✓✓ People have always had the desire to fly
Since people did not have the natural ability to fly like birds,
flight depended on their ability to make machines to carry them
aloft
Ornithopter
,✓✓ Designed by Leonardo da Vinci
Flying machines kept aloft and propelled by flapping wings
Leonardo da Vinci
✓✓ 1452-1519
First designs of parachute and helicopter
Importance of center of gravity, pressure, and streamlining
Obsessed with the idea of man flying like birds
Ballast
✓✓ Heavy substance used to control ascent and descent
Francesco de Lana
, ✓✓ 1670, professor of math, Jesuit priest
Wrote about aerial ship carried by four large spheres
First scientific record of a vacuum balloon
Also wrote about military uses for balloons
Laurenco de Gusmao
✓✓ 1709, Jesuit priest
Demonstrated a small hot air balloon for king of Portugal
Henry Cavendish
✓✓ 1766, English chemist
discovered flammable air (hydrogen)
Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier
