Grizzly Bare ;
I know what you mean. Somehow it appears that there are a lot more "inventors" that I had ever imagined there would be. But the question of who marketed the inventions is really the "hot spot" I think.
The Wright Bros. in 1906 were still stucked with the "catapult" system. After Santos Dumont flying in Paris ( with a craft that could take-off , fly and land indenpently from any external help - read catapult).
Just to show the creative mind of the Brazilian - he was the one who "invented" the pulse watch. Nobody know that...but is just to show that he was a full time "nerd".
But his nature didn't help with "securing" the plane "invention" (at least the marketing of it).
But as always ; I cant be more happy that we HAVE airplanes - independantly of whom was the "first".
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