News, Connecticut Senate passes bill writing Wright Brothers out of history.
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It's not the "technical" description of the "event" itself: As with Columbus' voyage or Henry Ford's development of the mass-produced, affordable automobile, it's the lasting effect the event had upon the development of a huge venue of human activity.
Using that standard, I'd say that the Wright Brothers' recognition is secure.
If Whitehead sustained a powered, controlled flight before the Write Brothers did, why should the Wright Brothers continue to be regarded the the first people to ever do it?
How odd that the North Carolina General Assembly found "no credence" for the Whitehead claim. I don't think they looked very hard.
Since when does the Connecticut Senate have any authority to "delete" anything from history? Can Georgia's Senate delete the Trail of Tears from history, in order to better serve the parochial Gods of Pride?
For the same reason people still say Columbus founded North America when it is known now Vikings where here long before that (yes, let us not get into the Indian debate yet). People's minds are made up, what they know is what they know, and, except for a very small percentage of the population, fact is the majority just do not care.
For the same reason people still say Columbus founded North America when it is known now Vikings where here long before that (yes, let us not get into the Indian debate yet). People's minds are made up, what they know is what they know, and, except for a very small percentage of the population, fact is the majority just do not care.
True, but the Vikings may have discovered America before Columbus but its knowledge for some reason were apparently limited.
The same with the airplane. Gustave Whitehead may or may have not have flown first but flight did not become widely known until the Wright Brothers.
It may have helped Whitehead's case if he actually had more publicity. You would think that if someone claimed that he built and was going to take off in his own "flying machine" it would be easy to attract more than one member of the press and far far more witnesses. Especially since his flights supposedly took place near Bridgeport, Connecticut - easily connected by the New Haven Railroad to NYC, the nation's largest city. New York had a dozen major newspapers in 1900, why did Whitehead not even contact one of them?
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