But making them depends on knowledge people didnt have. Like the existence of a vacuum

Pissing in your suit on the moon still counts as pissing on the moon

According to the wiki, he made an airship- thats lighter than air

And they won, because the patent covered any construction for adjusting the wing to achieve lateral roll control.

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At least 3 years later, and the 14-bis wasnt controllable.

There was a good video i saw-unfortunately dont know who by- that talked about the romans inventing the steam engine. After all, the greeks had the aleopile. But there was SUCH a vast shotcoming in terms of knowledge about physics and the world that it wouldnt have happened. Stuff that even a child knows today they had no idea.

That was otto von lilienthal. And he died doing that. He had no way to steer the wing(other than shifting body weight), and his tables of lift were full of errors.(according to the wrights, who had to make a tiny wind chamber to do their own experiments)

Sure it mightve been done shortly thereafter. but even france, who had assumed the wrights were a hoax, didnt accomplish anything STEERABLE even many years after.

The other major US competitor was Langley, and his Aerodrome wasnt even close.

This video from gregs airplanes goes into a lot of detail and i thought it was fascinating.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkpQAGQiv4Q

Who tried flying using their technology without paying them. As they shouldve, because they invented it, and everyone was trying to get out of paying.

Its not like they bought the patent and did no work,they risked dying testing it.

Um. Maybe if youre drunk and/or high.

GIMP is awful though. I havent seen the new ui yet, but the old one was unusably bad

Im fine with local only, but theres so many people that just vomit out exactly what claude says.