(1810) Flugmaschine (technical illustration of early flying machine) (1830s) Flying (engraving of early flying machines) (1843) The aerial steam carriage (pictorial lettersheet shows British inventor William Samuel Henson's proposed steam-powered flying machine) (1843) Sir George Cayley's aerial carriage (print) (1852) Tableau explicatif general (technical illustration shows 21 figures about aeronautics) (1852) La locomotion aérienne passive (technical illustration shows 14 figures with various designs for parachutes) (1869) Early Aeronautics (article from Harper’s New Monthly Magazine) (1869) W.F. Quinby (design drawing for a human powered flying machine) (no date) Arnold Coblitz in ornithopter in Czechoslovakia (photograph) (1883) Le ballon rédaction et bureaux (chromolithograph) (1892) Flying Machines of the Future, as Conceived in 1892 (article by Alexander Graham Bell) (1895) Birds in Flight and the Flying Machine (article from The North American Review) (1895) A New Flying Machine (article in The Century) (1895) Otto Lilienthal, with wings of glider (photograph) (1895) O. Lilienthal - flying machine Patented Aug. 20, 1895 (design drawing) (1895) Ayres’ new aerial machine (wood engraving) (1899) Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mabel Hubbard Bell (Bell writes his theories about birds as nature’s model of a flying machine)
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