1- They didn't manage to sell their invention to the millitary.
2- All modern aircrafts are direct descendants of Santos Dummont's aircraft, which was used during the WWI in Europe. You know, the Wright brothers used some kind of wing-twisting mechanism to control the flight... Dummont's 14-bis like all other modern airplanes, use Flaps in the wings.
3- The Wright brothers were so much concerned in keeping everything secret that there isn't much evidence they did the first flight when they announced they did. Why didn't they simply pick their invention and flight in front of an entire city, like Dummont did? Or didn't gain any international recognition for their feat, while a prize was bring conducted in Europe for the first man to fly? That's also a reason no modern plane is based in the Wright's model. Santos Dummont, on the other hand believed all knowledge should be free...... and anyone who fight for FREE software shouldn't be defending anything diferent from that.
Let's just say... Wright's inventions, if they ever did work, died with them.
"We arrive has the famous controversy relating to the first flight of the history: Does Clement Ader have steals the first, October 9, 1890 with the castle of Armainvilliers or on October 14, 1897 has Satory? Are testimonys which one quotes has the support valid? If one answers by negative A the premiere question, it is to the Wright brothers, say Americains, that the exploit should be allotted, realise on December 17, 1903 has Kitty Hawk, in North Carolina. The historians are divisions. No official official report has ete established at the time, neither for one nor for the other of these flights."
"The Aero-Club of France (melts in 1898) and the F.A.I. (international aeronautic Federation, fondee in 1905) were indeed doors guarantors of the homologation of these official performances. November 12, 1906, on the lawn of Trifle, Santos-Dumont was thus going to allot the first three records of the world: duration (21 S 1/5), distance (220 m) and speed (41,292 km/h). Altitude, it was not yet question, since it was able to the police chiefs to be plated on grass to note that the wheels had quite free the ground. Precisons that the flights of November 12 1906 were carry out on average is 6 meters top."
Source?http://1100f.free.fr/histoire_de_l'aviati on.htm You can use Google to translate from the French.
Another one: http://www.esparacing.com/Aviation%20history /up%20 to%20WW%201/Santos%20Dumont.htm
There is an article in a recent number of Scientific American Brasil about this issue... but I can't find it online. Anyway, keep your americanism to yourself. The Wrights did no important influence in the industry of flight.
1 - NZ isn't in Africa. It's on Oceania, near Australia.
2 - Alberto Santos Dummont was the first man to really fly, in Paris. Before a heavy crowed park, winning an international prize for his feat. Also, his is the first DOCUMENTED flight, and his creations ( like flaps, for instance ) are the only ones used today in the modern aircraft industry.
Only the US credit the Wright Brothers for the invention of aircrafts, as the rest of the world credits Santos Dummont, who also invented the wrist watch ( which was first produced by Cartier and known as the Santos Dummont wrist watch ) and the shower:) All proofs of Dummonts work are now held in Paris ( Aerospace Museum I think ), and it was the first successfull documented airplane flight experiement, and the only one people base modern flight techniques on. Dummont went back to Brazil after the start of WWI, and when informed his creation was being used in the war, tried to commit suicide in the ship. After arriving, he led a reclusive live in Petropolis, Brazil, shattered by the idea of creating a weapon of great destruction. Thank God he didn't live to see a plane dropping the first nuclear bomb.
Sources? Take Scientific American for example, but it's something any kid in any country outside north america knows. Ask any Brazilian, french or ittalian kid for example. But if you still want to believe every important invention in the world was of american origin, just go ahead. It's almost Xmas anyway and you also probrably believe Santa will climb your roof and leave you a sock full of gifts:)
PS: This is not a direct answer to Anonymous Coward, but let's just drop the subject. A Brazilian priest is known of doing Radio experiments before Marconi, but he didn't invent it. Why? No documentations of the procedures, techniques and of the fact itself.
I believe there is a BIG confusion on your part... I am from Brazil, and I think I should tell you all that the true reason for the SMS being constantly reborn in Brazil is not the fact Tectoy venerates the SMS, but instead the fact the SMS can make a very unexpensive game plataform... and the only one 90% of the brazilian families can afford, considering what they make in an year wouldn't be able to afford a PlayStation II or a GameCube for example. And since they can't afford buying new games, hence the 74 built in games:(
I wish I had something better to say, and could see this as a great console rebirth ( I personally love SMS's R-Type ), but it's not... it's simply a consequence of poverty.
Well, disposable DVDs and CDs could be really interesting for some marketing promos, or to have a DVD burned for you on demand at the local rental store, with a lifespan preset to the number of days you are going to rent the contents, and after that time, disposing it instead of returning to the store sounds thrilling when it comes to a new confort to our lives, but the enviromental issues behind it are also very scary.
How much time would such a DVD take to decompose in nature? I believe without a decomposable media, which would have a lifespan of a few years or decades, or some way to recycle such medias, we would be just giving the next generations another frivolous creation that grew into a devastating problem to the enviroment.
Just my two cents on this issue.
Jessica
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Well, there is something pretty common here in Brazil... brazilian software developers and system administrators tend to see national software as being of low/bad quality and to rely more on international products and distributions than to give credit to local products. I have heard someone made incredibly good comments on the Window Maker, and going wide eyed by being told Window Maker is a Brazilian Software. And never again doing any comment about it, but replacing it by Enlightenment on their desktops. And also, more than once I have heard comments from many admins saying they wouldn't use Conectiva simply because it was a Brazilian distribution, preferring Slackware or RedHat instead. But Conectiva is managing to break that down.
I am working with one guy related to the Conectiva project, and they are really doing much development locally, instead of just picking the best software around and bundling it in "yet one more distribution". And also, Conectiva is a commercial distribution, with a great deal of worry from Conectiva ( the company ) on supporting and training their users.
So, I think it's time to give Conectiva a try, at least, before putting Debian back on my notebook. I can keep You all updated on what goes on, but I believe Conectiva grained a self identity, no longer being simply a RedHat 5.2 with some patches over it, like Conectiva 4.0 was.
kisses,
Jessica
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1- They didn't manage to sell their invention to the millitary.
... and anyone who fight for FREE software shouldn't be defending anything diferent from that.
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2- All modern aircrafts are direct descendants of Santos Dummont's aircraft, which was used during the WWI in Europe. You know, the Wright brothers used some kind of wing-twisting mechanism to control the flight... Dummont's 14-bis like all other modern airplanes, use Flaps in the wings.
3- The Wright brothers were so much concerned in keeping everything secret that there isn't much evidence they did the first flight when they announced they did. Why didn't they simply pick their invention and flight in front of an entire city, like Dummont did? Or didn't gain any international recognition for their feat, while a prize was bring conducted in Europe for the first man to fly? That's also a reason no modern plane is based in the Wright's model. Santos Dummont, on the other hand believed all knowledge should be free...
Let's just say... Wright's inventions, if they ever did work, died with them.
"We arrive has the famous controversy relating to the first flight of the history: Does Clement Ader have steals the first, October 9, 1890 with the castle of Armainvilliers or on October 14, 1897 has Satory? Are testimonys which one quotes has the support valid? If one answers by negative A the premiere question, it is to the Wright brothers, say Americains, that the exploit should be allotted, realise on December 17, 1903 has Kitty Hawk, in North Carolina. The historians are divisions. No official official report has ete established at the time, neither for one nor for the other of these flights."
"The Aero-Club of France (melts in 1898) and the F.A.I. (international aeronautic Federation, fondee in 1905) were indeed doors guarantors of the homologation of these official performances. November 12, 1906, on the lawn of Trifle, Santos-Dumont was thus going to allot the first three records of the world: duration (21 S 1/5), distance (220 m) and speed (41,292 km/h). Altitude, it was not yet question, since it was able to the police chiefs to be plated on grass to note that the wheels had quite free the ground. Precisons that the flights of November 12 1906 were carry out on average is 6 meters top."
Source?http://1100f.free.fr/histoire_de_l'aviat
You can use Google to translate from the French.
Another one:
http://www.esparacing.com/Aviation%20histor
There is an article in a recent number of Scientific American Brasil about this issue... but I can't find it online. Anyway, keep your americanism to yourself. The Wrights did no important influence in the industry of flight.
1 - NZ isn't in Africa. It's on Oceania, near Australia.
2 - Alberto Santos Dummont was the first man to really fly, in Paris. Before a heavy crowed park, winning an international prize for his feat. Also, his is the first DOCUMENTED flight, and his creations ( like flaps, for instance ) are the only ones used today in the modern aircraft industry.
Only the US credit the Wright Brothers for the invention of aircrafts, as the rest of the world credits Santos Dummont, who also invented the wrist watch ( which was first produced by Cartier and known as the Santos Dummont wrist watch ) and the shower:) All proofs of Dummonts work are now held in Paris ( Aerospace Museum I think ), and it was the first successfull documented airplane flight experiement, and the only one people base modern flight techniques on. Dummont went back to Brazil after the start of WWI, and when informed his creation was being used in the war, tried to commit suicide in the ship. After arriving, he led a reclusive live in Petropolis, Brazil, shattered by the idea of creating a weapon of great destruction. Thank God he didn't live to see a plane dropping the first nuclear bomb.
Sources? Take Scientific American for example, but it's something any kid in any country outside north america knows. Ask any Brazilian, french or ittalian kid for example. But if you still want to believe every important invention in the world was of american origin, just go ahead. It's almost Xmas anyway and you also probrably believe Santa will climb your roof and leave you a sock full of gifts:)
PS: This is not a direct answer to Anonymous Coward, but let's just drop the subject. A Brazilian priest is known of doing Radio experiments before Marconi, but he didn't invent it. Why? No documentations of the procedures, techniques and of the fact itself.
I believe there is a BIG confusion on your part... I am from Brazil, and I think I should tell you all that the true reason for the SMS being constantly reborn in Brazil is not the fact Tectoy venerates the SMS, but instead the fact the SMS can make a very unexpensive game plataform... and the only one 90% of the brazilian families can afford, considering what they make in an year wouldn't be able to afford a PlayStation II or a GameCube for example. And since they can't afford buying new games, hence the 74 built in games:(
I wish I had something better to say, and could see this as a great console rebirth ( I personally love SMS's R-Type ), but it's not... it's simply a consequence of poverty.
Kisses,
jessie
Well, disposable DVDs and CDs could be really interesting for some marketing promos, or to have a DVD burned for you on demand at the local rental store, with a lifespan preset to the number of days you are going to rent the contents, and after that time, disposing it instead of returning to the store sounds thrilling when it comes to a new confort to our lives, but the enviromental issues behind it are also very scary.
How much time would such a DVD take to decompose in nature? I believe without a decomposable media, which would have a lifespan of a few years or decades, or some way to recycle such medias, we would be just giving the next generations another frivolous creation that grew into a devastating problem to the enviroment.
Just my two cents on this issue.
Jessica
Well, there is something pretty common here in Brazil... brazilian software developers and system administrators tend to see national software as being of low/bad quality and to rely more on international products and distributions than to give credit to local products. I have heard someone made incredibly good comments on the Window Maker, and going wide eyed by being told Window Maker is a Brazilian Software. And never again doing any comment about it, but replacing it by Enlightenment on their desktops. And also, more than once I have heard comments from many admins saying they wouldn't use Conectiva simply because it was a Brazilian distribution, preferring Slackware or RedHat instead. But Conectiva is managing to break that down. I am working with one guy related to the Conectiva project, and they are really doing much development locally, instead of just picking the best software around and bundling it in "yet one more distribution". And also, Conectiva is a commercial distribution, with a great deal of worry from Conectiva ( the company ) on supporting and training their users. So, I think it's time to give Conectiva a try, at least, before putting Debian back on my notebook. I can keep You all updated on what goes on, but I believe Conectiva grained a self identity, no longer being simply a RedHat 5.2 with some patches over it, like Conectiva 4.0 was. kisses, Jessica