A replica of a glider designed by German aviation pioneer
Otto Lilienthal is also on display.
Marey's chronophotographs also became some of the most studied artifacts in the race for heavier-than-air-flight, and the forms they revealed were the inspiration for
Otto Lilienthal's beautiful wooden gliders, one of which tumbled its maker out of the sky to his death in 1896.
In which area of transport was
Otto Lilienthal a famous pioneer?
As Thompson notes, "When the Wright brothers asked the Smithsonian for all available information on the history of flight in 1899, they opened a history that had begun with Da Vinci's scribbling, and continued all the way to the 19th-century gliders of
Otto Lilienthal: The bottom line on all this is that invention really is a collaborative thing, a group effort, over time, as are so many other processes in the world.
"Ever since I was a little boy I have been inspired by pioneers like
Otto Lilienthal, Leonardo da Vinci," the Daily Mail quoted Smeets as saying.
Otto Lilienthal was trained as a mathematician and engineer, which led to his precise designs of the wings he used to glide from hills around Berlin.
But gliding pioneer
Otto Lilienthal thought that was misguided.
In discussing key figures from the quest for flight, he points out that Hiram Maxim was most concerned with propulsion, while
Otto Lilienthal and the brothers Wright focused first on the mechanics of flight.
16 In what field of endeavour was
Otto Lilienthal an important pioneer?
After tracing the work of a number of pioneering experimenters including George Cayley,
Otto Lilienthal, and Samuel Langley, Crouch provides a short but informative analysis on how and why Wilbur and Orville Wright succeeded in giving humankind wings.