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Originally Posted by Maki
Did you read that recent biography by McCullough? The thing I found interesting was the amount of effort they spent simply convincing people that they had indeed achieved powered flight. Also, that the invention was 50% the airplane and 50% the technique of flying it.
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Yes, that's the one. Maybe things caught on more slowly back then because you had to actually put some effort into finding out more about something instead of clicking a mouse.