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Karl Wilhelm Otto Lilienthal (23 May 1848 – 10 August 1896) was a German pioneer of aviation who became known as the "flying man". [2] He was the first person to make well-documented, repeated, successful flights with gliders , [ 3 ] therefore making the idea of heavier-than-air aircraft a reality.
The town of Anklam is Lilienthal's birthplace. Various objects belonging to the life and work of Otto Lilienthal, among them a reconstruction of a glider from the year 1925 have been part of a local history museum, founded in 1927. The Otto-Lilienthal-Museum was opened in 1991 as a biographical technical museum.
Otto Lilienthal: Father of Aviation and first successful aviator. Main discovery was the properties and shape of the wing. Carl von Linde: Engineer who, among other things, developed refrigeration and gas separation technologies. Walter Linderer: Father of the airbag.
Otto Lilienthal † 23 May 1848 10 Aug 1896 Germany: Science Design Construction Manufacture Aviator Glider: Designed and constructed a monoplane Derwitzer Glider (1891); [120] after nearly 2,000 flights he constructed a two-surfaced glider (1895); [121] (†) Glider crash (9 Aug 1896), Gollenberg, Germany. [122] Charles Lindbergh: 4 Feb 1902 ...
Lichterfelde Süd was developed in the 1960s and 1970s and is large made up of suburban housing estates, being a significant architectural deviation from the older mansion settlements. The Otto Lilienthal Memorial Park with the artificial conical hill, from which he started many of his flight attempts, is located in Lichterfelde Süd.
Gustav Lilienthal and a replica of Otto's glider, 1930. Gustav Lilienthal (October 9, 1849 – February 1, 1933) was a German social reformer, a pioneer in building and construction technology (Prefabricated buildings), inventor of different Construction sets (e. g. Anchor Stone Blocks) and involved in the pioneering work of his brother, Otto Lilienthal in aviation.
Pilcher's Hawk glider, restored after his fatal crash, on display in the National Museum of Scotland. Percy Sinclair Pilcher (16 January 1867 – 2 October 1899) was a British inventor and pioneer aviator who was his country's foremost experimenter in unpowered flight near the end of the nineteenth century.
The Derwitzer glider was a glider that was developed by Otto Lilienthal, so named because it was tested near Derwitz [de; it] (nowadays part of Werder (Havel)) in Brandenburg. It first flew in 1891 and became one of the first successful manned aircraft in the world. Lilienthal used it to make flights of up to 25 metres (80 feet).