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"I think we could solve our problems more easily through strength of character; but that's always been a commodity in extremely short supply."
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I don't know who first thought of powering an aircraft with solar energy alone; as far as I know, working models didn't appear until the 1970's. So, this is a fairly early mention of the idea.
The brothers Albert and Gaston Tissandier developed the first electrically propelled dirigible, first flown in 1883.
(Image: Library of Congress) Compare to the electric plane from Synthetic (1930) by Charles Cloukey. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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