biography
pronunciation:
[kaylee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1771–1857)
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| biography:
| Pioneer of aviation, born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, N England, UK. In 1808 he constructed and flew a glider, probably the first heavier-than-air machine, and made the first successful man-carrying glider (1853). He also interested himself in railway engineering, allotment agriculture, and land reclamation methods, and invented a new type of telescope, artificial limbs, the caterpillar tractor, and the tension wheel. He helped to found the Regent Street Polytechnic, London (1839). |
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