A History of Aeronautics

"A History of Aeronautics" by Evelyn Charles Vivian is a journey through time, charting humanity's age-old dream of soaring through the skies, starting with early myths to the significant progress in flying machines and ballooning. The storyline looks at the work of important people, like Sir George Cayley and the Wright Brothers, who helped create our modern understanding of how flight works. The book begins by recalling the legends and stories from ancient times that dreamed of human flight, and explains how people at first didn’t trust or believe in these ideas. Then, we meet the people who took those early steps in aeronautics, for example Leonardo da Vinci and Sir George Cayley, and the book focuses on their important theories and experiments. The tale shows that even though it was hard, the desire to fly was fueled by people trying new things and not giving up, which helped encourage the future progress of flying.