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How flying and walking are similar - ☑️☑️-Need power to get going

-Need more power as load get heavier

-Need place to store power



Escaped from prison by "donning the

work clothes of a bird." - ☑️☑️Legend of emperor Shun



Built a flying chariot that had no visible means of support - ☑️☑️Ki-kung-shi



100 BC Chinese invented - ☑️☑️The kite



Attempted a flight to the Moon using a large wicker chair to which were fastened 47 large rockets - ☑️☑️Wan
Hoo



Great Italian artist, architect and man of science made the first scientific experiments in the field of aviation. -
☑️☑️Leonardo da Vinci



He understood and wrote about the

importance of the center of gravity, center of

pressure and streamlining. - ☑️☑️Leonardo da Vinci



Flying machines that are kept aloft and propelled by

flapping wings - ☑️☑️Ornithopters

, Atmospheric pressure decreases as you go - ☑️☑️Higher



Measures the pressure of the atmosphere - ☑️☑️Barometer



Allowed them to study vacuums - ☑️☑️Air pump



Wrote about an "aerial ship." This airship would

be carried aloft by four large spheres from which all air had been removed to make them lighter than the
surrounding air. - ☑️☑️Francesco de Lana



Most important development in the first lighter than air flight - ☑️☑️Reduced cost of printing which allowed
for distribution of information



Credited with inventing the hot-air balloon. In 1709,

he demonstrated a small hot air balloon for the King of Portugal. - ☑️☑️Laurenco de Gusmao



Discovered a gas which he called "flammable air.'' Later named hydrogen, this gas is important

because it is lighter than air. - ☑️☑️Henry Cavendish



Realized that if this light gas were enclosed in a thin bladder, it would weigh less than the surrounding air and
would therefore rise - ☑️☑️Joseph Black



First to fly in hot air balloon - ☑️☑️Montgolfiers



Made the first parachute jump from a

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