In 1799, Cayley carved a silver disc with one side bearing a design for the world‘s first aeroplane and the other showing the earliest published description of the aerodynamic(空气动力的) forces on a wing that enable a plane to fly. His three-part essay Aerial Navigation, published in 1809...
‘made what was claimed to be the first airplane flight unassisted by catapult’, but it was ‘the Wright brothers [who] invented and flew the first airplane’. In turn, the articleAvionon the French-language Wikipedia narrates this story differently: it opens with how Gabriel de La Land...
by train, lakes, forests and wild, open plains sweeping past your carriage window create a grand view in which time and distance mean nothing. But if you board a plane, you can just see the blank blue of the sky filling the narrow window of the aeroplane, and the hours progress slowly...
In the popular imagination, Johnson was a brave, glamorous and largely lucky daredevil who finally overreached herself. She made history in 1930 by becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia — the first of several extraordinary achievements — but she was not doing it only...
“I made my first piece of jewellery and I fell in love. I knew from that moment that I wanted to make jewellery forever. One of the most awesome feelings is when I design and produce a piece and when it’s done. The client comes in and tells me they think it’s beautiful and th...
the value of the aeroplane to the world will be beyond computation."This wasn't the first grand promise of technology.In that same year Jules Verne announced,"The submarine(潜艇)may be the cause of bringing battle to a stoppage."Alfred Nobel,sincerely believe his dynamite(火药) would be a...
根据句意及单词的英文释义写出单词1.It was my first (journey made in an aeroplane)to beijing2.You can (choose from a group of things)one as a Christmas present3.they worked as (someone who flies a piane)for several years4.They (try one'
Photo credit: UX Solutions Prague David Anton, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution's first consultant occupational physician, who investigated multiple high profile aeroplane crashes and was a consultant to the US navy and air force, has died at his home at the age of 75. David Anton was ...
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Being Forced To Travel Everywhere By Aeroplane A weekend trip to a nearby city ends up being a 12 hour journey, which spans car, train and aeroplane. You miss the compactness of the UK, where you can travel from top to tip in less than a day. By the time you leave the US, you’...