Who is the inventor of the airplane?

Wilbur and Orville set to work trying to figure out how to design wings for flight. They observed that birds angled their wings for balance and control, and tried to emulate this, developing a concept called “wing warping. read more

Alleged inventor: Thomas Edison . Actual Inventor: Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville . The story: While Edison may have invented the phonograph, with its ability to play back recordings, it was the invention of the phonautograph in 1857 that gave us the first machine to record audio. read more

This is what a modern airplane looks like; all tail surfaces at the back. It was not the Wrights’ creation, which looked nothing like it, but Louis Bleriot’s Bleriot XI monoplane of 1909. All later airplanes have evolved from this design. read more

The history of flight and the invention of the airplane including inventors Orville and Wilbur Wright, but also several other ways to take to the skies. read more