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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 - ☑️☑️French
June 1783- Public demonstration of their hot air balloon
19 September 1783- Presented balloon to King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
First living passengers on the balloons- animals
21 November 1783- First men rode in the balloon over Paris
J.A.C. Charles - ☑️☑️Scientist hired by Montgolfier brothers
23 August 1783- Tested his balloon made from rubberized silk and inflated with hydrogen
1 December 1783- First manned flight in a hydrogen balloon
1783-1790 - ☑️☑️76 flights in France during this time
, Hydrogen balloon became more popular than hot air balloon
Jean Pierre Blanchard - ☑️☑️7 January 1785- Flew across the English Channel
9 January 1793- First balloon flight in United States in Philadelphia
U.S. Civil War - ☑️☑️First use of balloons by U.S. Military
Union balloon corps disbanded due to lack of money and manpower
Confederacy also used balloons
mainly used for reconnaissance
Dirigible - ☑️☑️Lighter-than-air craft than can be propelled and steered
Jean Baptiste Meusnier - ☑️☑️French general
1785- Helped create the first successful dirigibles
Henri Giffard - ☑️☑️1852
French
First successful dirigible
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 - ☑️☑️French
June 1783- Public demonstration of their hot air balloon
19 September 1783- Presented balloon to King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
First living passengers on the balloons- animals
21 November 1783- First men rode in the balloon over Paris
J.A.C. Charles - ☑️☑️Scientist hired by Montgolfier brothers
23 August 1783- Tested his balloon made from rubberized silk and inflated with hydrogen
1 December 1783- First manned flight in a hydrogen balloon
1783-1790 - ☑️☑️76 flights in France during this time
, Hydrogen balloon became more popular than hot air balloon
Jean Pierre Blanchard - ☑️☑️7 January 1785- Flew across the English Channel
9 January 1793- First balloon flight in United States in Philadelphia
U.S. Civil War - ☑️☑️First use of balloons by U.S. Military
Union balloon corps disbanded due to lack of money and manpower
Confederacy also used balloons
mainly used for reconnaissance
Dirigible - ☑️☑️Lighter-than-air craft than can be propelled and steered
Jean Baptiste Meusnier - ☑️☑️French general
1785- Helped create the first successful dirigibles
Henri Giffard - ☑️☑️1852
French
First successful dirigible
