Mother of Invention
On July 25, 1909 a pilot named Louis Bleriot flew across the English Channel from France.
The French aviation pioneer, in his modified type XI monoplane, took off from Les Baraques, near Calais, at 4.41 am and landed at 5.I7am in Northfall Meadow, near Dover.
On July 26, 1909 - Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim an engineer at Vickers began development on the anti-aircraft gun.