123 years agoInternal Combustion and Flight
1903-12-17
Powered Flight
The Wright brothers achieved the first powered, controlled, crewed flight.
Enter the flight workshopArt style · 1900s sepia photograph
World population
1.68Bpeople
1/5 of today
Primary energy power
1.5×10¹²W
1/14 of today
London → New York message
0.53 seconds
18 times slower than today
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