The Wright Brothers

[Ungatt Trunn]

Did you know that the Right Brothers (you know, the guys who ''invented" the airplane?) Are being written out of history? Yes, its true! Somebody found evidence that points %99 to a German inventing the first successful airplane, not the Wright Brothers. Sure, the Wright Brothers will still be hailed as some of the first people to create a flying plane, but it looks like somebody beat them to it by 2 years, historians say.
Just though it sounded interesting

[HeadInAnotherGalaxy]

Ach, can zome people nay let gae o' ze pazt an look forvard?! Next zin' ye ken zey're goin' tae be zayin' Benjamin Franklin didnae invent ze lightnin' rod!

[Ungatt Trunn]

Ach, can zome people nay let gae o' ze pazt an look forvard?! Next zin' ye ken zey're goin' tae be zayin' Benjamin Franklin didnae invent ze lightnin' rod!

But they found evidence that virtually proved that the Wright Brothers weren't the true inventers of the plane.

[Rusvul]

I'm not sure if the Wright brothers invented the plane or not, but I do know that the Wrong brothers invented the wreck.

[Ungatt Trunn]

I'm not sure if the Wright brothers invented the plane or not, but I do know that the Wrong brothers invented the wreck.

LOL, so true

[Buzz_Bumble]

Did you know that the Wright Brothers (you know, the guys who ''invented" the airplane?) Are being written out of history? Yes, its true! Somebody found evidence that points %99 to a German inventing the first successful airplane, not the Wright Brothers. Sure, the Wright Brothers will still be hailed as some of the first people to create a flying plane, but it looks like somebody beat them to it by 2 years, historians say.
Just though it sounded interesting

Yep, it's pretty much certain that the Wright Brothers where not the first people to fly a plane.

There's also evidence that a New Zealander named Richard Pearse flew his plane before the Wright Brothers. There's evidence of people in a couple of other other European countries who beat them to it as well, and some evidence that they weren't even the first in America to do it.

[Ungatt Trunn]

There's also evidence that a New Zealander named Richard Pearse flew his plane before the Wright Brothers. There's evidence of people in a couple of other other European countries who beat them to it as well, and some evidence that they weren't even the first in America to do it.

Wow! I never knew any of that!

[Buzz_Bumble]

I'm not sure how reliable the evidence is that they weren't first in America, but they certainly weren't first in the world.

There's a few other items that the history books claim were invented by Americans which also have evidence that they were really invented elsewhere first, including the TV and (from memory) the telephone.

And yes, even the famous Benjamin Franklin kite experiment which "invented" electricity has evidence against it being the first. There are ancient Greek or Egyptian batteries that have been found in wrecked ships in the Mediterraen.

There are of course many things that were invented in America too.

[Rusvul]

Like popcorn!

[Leatho Shellhound]

Well either way, I'm happy. B/c I'm half american and half German. So who ever it was, my ancestry invented the airplane. 

[Ungatt Trunn]

Well either way, I'm happy. B/c I'm half american and half German. So who ever it was, my ancestry invented the airplane. 

I have a friend who's half-German. Me, myself, I'm half Russian, half-Whales (No, not anything like the blue whale, the country whales!), so I guess my ancestry didn't really have anything to do with the invention of the airplane.

Like popcorn!

I wonder if the Native Americans invented movie theaters!

[HeadInAnotherGalaxy]

And yes, even the famous Benjamin Franklin kite experiment which "invented" electricity has evidence against it being the first. There are ancient Greek or Egyptian batteries that have been found in wrecked ships in the Mediterraen.

Ach, zere goez ze lightnin' rod...

[Maudie]

Well, lets just hope they don't find out who did discover electricity, and even if they do, the can't take any of the Founding fathers out of history, especially Benjamin Franklin

[Ungatt Trunn]

Well, lets just hope they don't find out who did discover electricity, and even if they do, the can't take any of the Founding fathers out of history, especially Benjamin Franklin

Yup. If they do descover that Benjamin Franklin wasn't the true inventor of electrisety, he will always be remembered for his signing the Decloration of Independace of the U. S of A.

[Leatho Shellhound]

But who wants Benjamin Franklin to be in history??