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I feel perfectly confident that we shall be able to transport ourselves and families, and their goods and chattels, more securely by air than by water...."-Sir George Cayley
After the Montgolfier brothers, mankind was ready to move beyond float…
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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Joseph and Et?enne de Montgolfier, brothers living in France in…
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"The kite and other birds, which beat their wings little, go seeking the course of the wind, and when the wind prevails...they will be seen at a great height." -Leonardo da Vinci
Four hundred years before the Wright Brothers, Leonardo da Vinci …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJEQ_chinese-kites_Dayton-OH.html
Raise your sail one foot and get ten feet of wind. -Chinese Proverb
The world's first aircraft were the kites of China. The Chinese military first fashioned bird-shaped, wooden kites that were flown behind enemy lines to drop propaganda, to sen…
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Oh that I had Wings. -Thomas Moore.
Mankind began dreaming of flight long ago in ancient Greece. Greek mythology reveals this dream in the tale of young Icarus. King Minos imprisoned Icarus and his father, Daedalus, on the isle of Crete. The tw…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJEL_the-solution-wing-warping_Dayton-OH.html
By the late 1800s, a handful of experimenters around the world were closing in on the riddle of powered flight. They could fly a plane into the air, but they still couldn't control it - keep it from pitching forward, turning side to side, or rolli…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJDK_inventing-flight-the-centennial-celebration_Dayton-OH.html
On this site, from July 3 through July 20, 2003, the world focused its attention on Dayton as the Birthplace of Aviation for the one hundredth anniversary of the Wright Brothers' first flight and as a Signature Event of the Ohio Bicentennial Celeb…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJDJ_colonel-edward-deeds_Dayton-OH.html
Colonel Edward Deeds (1874-1960) was among the core of Dayton's brilliant leadership in the first half of the 20th century. As vice president of NCR, Deeds' mentored Charles Kettering, hiring him back every time the fickle John Patterson fired him…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIOR_cooper-park_Dayton-OH.html
Daniel C. Cooper (1773-1818) perhaps more than any other deserves to be called the founder of Dayton. A surveyor with Israel Ludlow, Cooper settled in Dayton in the summer of 1796 and became titular owner of the town when the original proprietors …
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John Van Cleve, Benjamin Van Cleve's son, made his own mark on Dayton as an intellectual, a political activist, and an advocate for a more beautiful city. Van Cleve studied botany, mathematics, and music. He served as the mayor of Dayton and publi…