biography
pronunciation:
[leelyentahl]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1849–96)
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| biography:
| Aeronautical inventor and pioneer of gliders, born in Anklam, NE Germany. After graduating from the Berlin Trade Academy, he studied bird flight in order to build heavier-than-air flying machines resembling the birdman designs of Leonardo da Vinci. He made hundreds of short flights in his gliders, but crashed to his death near Berlin. |
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