Images from a century of aviation. From: Contemporary Review | Date: August 1, 2003| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2003 Contemporary Review Company Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

THIS year sees the hundredth anniversary of the Wright Brothers' first flight on 17 December, 1903 near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. It was a breakthrough the world of light engineering had long been gearing up for. The internal combustion engine had been invented by Etienne Lenoir in 1860, improved by Alphonse Beau de Rochas in 1862, further improved, mass-produced and successfully marketed by Nikolaus Otto in the later 1870s, and installed in road vehicles by Karl Benz in the 1880s. Clement Ader, who invented the word the French use for aeroplane--avion--and predicted the ...

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