Inventors and experimenters who tried to fly before the aeroplane was practical, or who contributed an invention to flight. An entry belongs here when the cited article calls the person an inventor, naturalist or experimenter of flight. It excludes pilots and aeroplane constructors. Entries are placed by what their own cited article says, so each one sits in the narrowest group its source supports, and the group page lists it beside the other members.
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Yuan Huangtou (Wikipedia)
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Yuan Huangtou was imprisoned by Gao Yang and, along with other prisoners and against his will, flown via a large kite from the tower of Ye.
Alexander Graham Bell (Wikipedia)
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Alexander Graham Bell ( ; born Alexander Bell; March 3, 1847, August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born Canadian-American inventor, scientist, and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone.
Bartolomeu de Gusmao (Wikipedia)
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was a Portuguese Catholic priest and naturalist born in colonial Brazil, who was a pioneer of lighter-than-air aerostat design, being among the first scholars at that time to understand the operational principles of the hot air balloon and to build a functional prototype of such a device.
Abbas ibn Firnas (Wikipedia)
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Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbbās ibn Firnās ibn Wardās al-Tākurunnī (Arabic: أَبُو ٱلْقَاسِمِ، عَبَّاسُ بْنُ فِرْنَاسِ بْنِ وَرْدَاسَ ٱلتَّاكُرُنِّيُّ; c.
Alexander de Seversky (Wikipedia)
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Alexander Nikolayevich Prokofiev de Seversky (Russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Проко́фьев-Се́верский, romanized: Aleksandr Nikolayevich Prokofyev-Seversky; 7 June [O.S.
Slavoljub Eduard Penkala (Wikipedia)
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Slavoljub Eduard Penkala (Croatian pronunciation: [slâʋɔʎuːb ɛ̂duard pɛŋkǎːla]; 20 April 1871-5 February 1922) was a Croatian engineer and inventor.
Charles Frederick Page (Wikipedia)
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designed and built the first full-scale model of an airship
Alexander Pfitzner (Wikipedia)
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Hungarian engineer, inventor and aviation pioneer
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