![]() "Human muscle has no power to fly." The great thing in his work is that he tried to apply the energy of machine to flight. He was a British scholar of aeronautics. And he foretold that our world in the future would see the era of flying in the air. In 1842, he designed a "Steam-powered flying model" aircraft. He got a patent for this and attempted to build "The Aerial Steam Transit Company," which connected England with the colonies. Though he made a model, could not fly. He is great because he made his idea clear and illustrated it in a concrete way. But he could not make a real one. In fact, he failed because he tried to make money.
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