The Greatest Invention

The Greatest Invention In today’s modern world in which we live in, there are many things which we use from the mode of transportation, computers, cell phones, television, electricity and so many other things which we use in our everyday lives which make life easy. These things help to increase quality living but how many of us care to know the master minds behind the inventions of these things we use. In my opinion, the aeroplane is the greatest invention. Aeroplanes are primarily the most important kind of transportation which has changed people's lives to a great extent. Before the invention of airplanes, people used to travel by ship to reach far off places located across the oceans and seas. This mode of travel was slow and took days to complete one journey. On December 17, 1903 the Wright brothers, Wilbur and Orville, made history when they took off in flight and invented the first airplane. This is how the planet earth began shrinking geographically making it easier and quicker to travel over long distances. The Wright Brothers spent a great deal of time observing birds in flight. They noticed that birds soared into the wind and that the air flowing over the curved surface of their wings created lift. Birds change the shape of their wings to turn and maneuver. They believed that they could use this technique to obtain roll control by warping, or changing the shape, of a portion of the wing. the next three years, Wilbur and his brother Orville would design a series of gliders which would be flown in both unmanned (as kites) and piloted flights. They read about the works of Cayley, and Langley, and the hang-gliding flights of Otto Lilienthal. They corresponded with Octave Chanute concerning some of their ideas. They recognized that control of the flying aircraft would be the most crucial and hardest problem to solve.
Following a successful glider test, the Wrights built and tested a