SciShow: What the Wright Brothers Should Actually Be Famous For

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Content of the Lesson: For the pioneers of human aviation, one of the trickiest problems was figuring out how to steer the early craft. Then, the Wright Brothers changed everything by using bike parts and watching birds. Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Bd_Tmprd, Harrison Mills, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Ash, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/16/flight-wright-brothers-gustave-whitehead-connecticut-ohio-north-carolina https://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/wright-brothers/online/ https://www.nationalballoonmuseum.com/about/history-of-ballooning/ https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sir-George-Cayley https://web.archive.org/web/20130511071413/http://www.aeronautics.nasa.gov/fap/OnAerialNavigationPt1.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20130511041814/http://www.aeronautics.nasa.gov/fap/OnAerialNavigationPt2.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20130511052409/http://www.aeronautics.nasa.gov/fap/OnAerialNavigationPt3.pdf http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/cayley.html https://www.newscientist.com/term/first-powered-flight/ http://www.ctie.monash.edu/hargrave/stringfellow.html https://www.britannica.com/topic/Ader-Eole http://www.lilienthal-museum.de/olma/ewright.htm https://www.britannica.com/biography/Otto-Lilienthal https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/langley-aerodrome-a/nasm_A19180001000 https://books.google.com/books?id=924HJXFOU9wC&pg=PA172&lpg=PA172&dq=“A+bird+balanced+by+turning+the+forward+edge+of+one+wingtip+up+and+the+other+down.+The+image+of+‘an+animated+windmill’+stuck+in+Wilbur’s+mind.+‘Here,’+he+noted,+‘was+the+silent+birth+of+all+that+underlies+human+flight.’”&source=bl&ots=dwtoXbuPtT&sig=ACfU3U0l97LJ0hz9vH-4VNa2vq0KN3TsjA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj4l_P_7fzqAhWQZd8KHc3iD4QQ6AEwAHoECAEQAQ#v=onepage&q=“A%20bird%20balanced%20by%20turning%20the%20forward%20edge%20of%20one%20wingtip%20up%20and%20the%20other%20down.%20The%20image%20of%20‘an%20animated%20windmill’%20stuck%20in%20Wilbur’s%20mind.%20‘Here%2C’%20he%20noted%2C%20‘was%20the%20silent%20birth%20of%20all%20that%20underlies%20human%20flight.’”&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=-jEms0WpsBoC&pg=PA170&lpg=PA170&dq=%22some+would+agree+that+they+first+turned+the+handlebar+a+little+to+the+right,+and+then+as+the+machine+inclined+to+the+left,+they+turned+the+handlebar+to+the+left+and+as+a+result+made+the+circle,+inclining+inwardly.”&source=bl&ots=TRuYC9qHq8&sig=ACfU3U14aWtpOa8ttS8Aj1GOkJdyEAZ_Uw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwic78WO7vzqAhWhc98KHUjtCbQQ6AEwDHoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22some%20would%20agree%20that%20they%20first%20turned%20the%20handlebar%20a%20little%20to%20the%20right%2C%20and%20then%20as%20the%20machine%20inclined%20to%20the%20left%2C%20they%20turned%20the%20handlebar%20to%20the%20left%20and%20as%20a%20result%20made%20the%20circle%2C%20inclining%20inwardly.”&f=false https://wright.nasa.gov/airplane/warp.html https://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/incline.html https://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/handbooks_manuals/aviation/phak/media/08_phak_ch6.pdf https://www.britannica.com/technology/history-of-flight/The-generation-and-application-of-power-the-problem-of-propulsion https://www.britannica.com/technology/history-of-flight/The-generation-and-application-of-power-the-problem-of-propulsion https://uh.edu/engines/epi254.htm https://uh.edu/engines/epi1867.htm https://wright.nasa.gov/airplane/propeller.html https://wright.nasa.gov/airplane/tunnel.html https://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/wright-brothers/online/fly/1901/wings.cfm https://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/wright-brothers/online/fly/1901/smeaton.cfm https://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/wright-brothers/online/fly/1902/perfecting.cfm Image Sources: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ajw1970/23789780956 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fordsidevalve.jpg


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