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This is a listing of early flying machines.
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In this list, various advancements are presented, including actual flying machines, prototypes, models, designs or important pieces of literature. But note that some of this information is disputed by some sources.
[edit] Literature or designs only
[edit] More than design or literature
| Inventor | Accomplishment | Year
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| 'Abbas Ibn Firnas | Single flight of manned glider-wings | 875
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| Eilmer of Malmesbury | Also a single flight of manned glider-wings | 1010
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| Unknown Chinese | Manned kites are common. Reported by Marco Polo | 1290
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| John Childs | Unnamed flying device, flew 700m three times over two days | 1757
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| William Samuel Henson | Aerial Steam Carriage | 1842
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| John Stringfellow | Stringfellow Machines | 1848, 1868
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| Henri Giffard | Dirigible, hydrogen balloon powered by steam engine | 1852
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| Sir George Cayley | Cayley Glider, flight of manned glider | 1853
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| Rufus Porter | New York to California Aerial Transport | 1849
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| Jean Marie Le Bris | Artificial Albatross | 1857, 1867
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| Félix du Temple de la Croix | Monoplane (1874) First powered manned flight | 1857 - 1877
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| James William Butler and Edmund Edwards | Steam-Jet Dart | 1865
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| Francis Herbert Wenham | Wenham's Aerial Locomotion | 1866
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| Jan Wnek | Loty glider, many flights | 1866
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| Frederick Marriott | Marriott flying machines | 1869
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| Alphonse Penaud | Planophore, Penaud Toy Helicopter | 1871
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| Thomas Moy | Moy Aerial Steamer, | 1875
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| Thomas Moy | The Military Kite | 1879
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| Charles F. Ritchel | Ritchel Hand-powered Airship | 1878
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| Victor Tatin | Tatin flying machines | 1879
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| Massia and Biot | Massia-Biot Glider | 1879? 1887?
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| Alexandre Goupil | Goupi Monoplane, La Locomotion Aerienne | 1883
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| John J. Montgomery | Montgomery Monoplane and Tandem-Wing Gliders | 1883 - 1911
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| Aleksandr Fyodorovich Mozhaiski | Mozhaiski Monoplane | 1884
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| Pichancourt | Mechanical Birds | 1889
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| Lawrence Hargrave | Hargave flying machines and Box kites | 1889 - 1893
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| Clement Ader | Éole, Avion, short, manned and powered, flights | 1890 - 1897
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| Chuhachi Ninomiya | Karasu model, Tamamushi model | 1891 ,1895
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| Otto Lilienthal | Derwitzer Gliders, many flights | 1891
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| Horatio Phillips | Phillips Flying Machine | 1893, 1906
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| Hiram Stevens Maxim | Maxim Biplane | 1894
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| Pablo Suarez | Suarez Glider | 1895
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| Percy Sinclair Pilcher | Pilcher Hawk | 1896
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| Octave Chanute and Augustus Herring | Chanute and Herring Gliding Machines | 1896
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| William Paul Butusov | Albatross Soaring Machine | 1896
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| William Frost | Frost Airship Glider | 1896
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| Samuel Pierpont Langley | Langley Aerodromes | 1896 - 1903
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| Carl Rickard Nyberg | Flugan, very short manned flight | 1897
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| Edson F. Gallaudet | Gallaudet Wing Warping Kite | 1898
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| Lyman Gilmore | Gilmore Monoplane | 1898
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| Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin | Zeppelin airship LZ 1 | 1900
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| Wilhelm Kress | Kress Waterborne Aeroplane | 1901
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| Gustave Whitehead | Manned, powered aeroplane, 800m flight | 1901
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| Richard William Pearse | Pearse Monoplane | 1903
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| Karl Jatho | Jatho Biplane | 1903
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| Guido Dinelli | Dinelli Glider, Aereoplano | 1903, 1904
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| Wright brothers | Wright Flyers, Assisted take-off, controlled flights | 1903
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| Ferdinand Ferber and Gabriel Voisin | Archdeacon glider | 1904
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| Louis Blériot and Gabriel Voisin | Blériot-Voison floatplane glider, biplane | 1905
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| Traian Vuia | Vuia I, Vuia II monoplanes | 1906 - 1907
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| Alberto Santos-Dumont | 14-bis, Demoiselle First autonomous controlled take-off and flight.
| 1906 - 1907
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| Louis Blériot | Blériot V, Blériot XI | 1907, 1909
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| Glenn H. Curtiss | AEA June Bug | 1908
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| Aerial Experiment Association (AEA) | Silver Dart | 1909
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| Aurel Vlaicu | Vlaicu 1909, Vlaicu I, Vlaicu II, Vlaicu III | 1909-1910
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| Henri Fabre | Le Canard, First seaplane. | 1910
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| Duigan Brothers | Duigan Pusher Biplane | 1910
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| Henri Coanda | Coanda 1910 Biplane | 1910
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