1000 B.C.E.
Kite is invented in China. |
Manoscritti di Leonardo da Vinci
Sul Volo degli
Uccelli e
Varie Altre Materie.
Paris: E. Rouveyre, 1893.
(22.1) |
c.
852 B.C.E.
English King Bladud is apparently killed attempting to fly.
|
c.
400 B.C.E.
Archytas of Tarentum is reported to have made a steam-propelled
pigeon. |
c. 1250 A.D.
Roger
Bacon, English cleric, writes about mechanical flight. |
1485-1500
Leonardo
da Vinci designs flying machines and parachute. |
1670
Francesco
de Lana Terzi publishes a design for lighter-than-air ship. |
|
1680
Giovanni
Borelli, Italian mathematician, concludes human muscle is inadequate
for flight. |
Expérience
du globe aerostatique du MM. Charles et Robert au Jardin des
Thuileries le 1er décembre
1783.
Paris: Chez Esnauts et Rapilly . . . , 1783. (31) |
1709
Bartolomeu
Laurenço de Gusmao designs model glider. |
1783
Jean
François Pilâtre de Rozier and Marquis d'Arlandes
make the first free aerial voyage in a Montgolfier hot-air
balloon. |
1783
Jacques
Alexandre César Charles and M.N. Robert fly in a hydrogen
balloon. |
1785
Jean-Pierre
Blanchard and John Jeffries cross the English Channel by balloon. |
1785
Jean
François de Rozier and Pierre Romain are the first
ballooning fatalities. |
|
1797
André Jacques
Garnerin makes the first human parachute descent, from a
balloon. |
Premier descent en
parachute
[Jacques Garnerin],
1797. (107) |
1809
George Cayley publishes
classic treatise on aviation. |
1843
William
Henson's design for aerial steam carriage is published.
|
1843
George
Cayley's biplane design is published. |
1852
Henri
Giffard's steam-powered airship makes first flight. |
1867
Wilbur
Wright is born.
|
|
1870
Alphonse
Pénaud experiments with twisted rubber to power model
helicopter.
|
James Means.
The Problem of Manflight.
Boston, Massachusetts: W.B.
Clark & Co., 1894. (111) |
1871
Orville
Wright is born.
|
1889
Otto
Lilienthal publishes Der Vogelflug als Grundlage der
Fliegekunst.
|
1891
Otto
Lilienthal begins successful gliding experiments.
|
1895
Otto
Lilienthal flies biplane gliders. |
1896
Octave Chanute begins
biplane gliding experiments in Michigan.
|
|
1896
Samuel
P. Langley produces successful steam-powered models that
fly.
|
|
1896
Otto
Lilienthal crashes while gliding and dies next day.
|
John T. Daniels.
First flight, 120 feet
in 12 seconds, 10:35 a.m.,
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina,
December 17, 1903. (74)
|
1901
Alberto
Santos-Dumont, Brazilian aviator, circles Eiffel Tower in
airship.
|
1903
Samuel
Langley's full-size manned "Aerodrome A" crashes on take-off.
|
1903
Orville
and Wilbur Wright make first powered, sustained, and controlled
flight in a heavier-than-air flying machine.
|
1906
Alberto
Santos-Dumont makes first successful powered flight in Europe. |
|
1909
Louis
Bleriot, French aviator, makes first airplane crossing of
English Channel.
|
[Charles
Lindbergh, full-length portrait, standing, facing front,
beside the
Spirit of St. Louis], 1927.
[Amelia Earhart,
seated in airplane,
checking equipment], 1937.
|
1926
Robert
H. Goddard makes first free flight of a liquid-fueled rocket.
|
1927
Charles
A. Lindbergh completes first solo, nonstop trans-Atlantic
flight.
|
1930
Frank
Whittle, British inventor, invents the jet engine.
|
1932
Amelia
Earhart is the first woman to fly a solo non-stop trans-Atlantic
flight.
|
1933
A
modern airliner, Boeing 247, flies for the first
time.
|
1939
Germany's Heinkel
178 is the first fully jet-propelled aircraft to fly.
|
1947
Charles
E. Yeager pilots Bell X-1--the first aircraft to exceed
the speed of sound in level flight. |
|
1957
Soviet
Union launches first man-made earth satellite, Sputnik
1.
|
 
Soviet cosmonaut,
Yuri Gagarin in 1961 (left); U.S.
astronaut, Neil A. Armstrong [between 1962 and 1969] (right).
Flight
deck of space shuttle Columbia,
[between 1981 and 1985].
|
1961
Soviet
cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, is the first man in space.
|
1962
John
H. Glenn, Jr., is the first American to orbit the earth.
|
1969
U.S.
astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., are
the first to walk on the moon. |
1971
First
space station, Soviet Salyut 1, is launched into earth's
orbit. |
1981
U.S.
launches the first reusable spacecraft, the Columbia shuttle. |
1998
First two modules
of the International Space Station are launched and joined
together in orbit.
|
2000
First
crew arrives to take up residence in the International Space
Station. |
