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Timeline of aviation - 19th century
1800s - 1803
- July 18, Etienne Gaspar Robertson and Lhoest climb from Hamburg (Germany) up to 7,280 m in a balloon.
- October 3-4, Frenchman André-Jaques Garnerin covered a distance of 395 km from Paris to Clausen with his Montgolfière.
- Count Francesco Zambeccari publishes a five-volume work on ballooning and aeronatics.
- 1804
- Sir George Cayley builds a model glider with moveable control surfaces.
- August/September, experiments by physicists Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and Jean Baptiste Biot disproved the theory that the earth's pull decreases with height.
- September 7, Zambeccari and two companions, Grasetti and Andreoli, ascend in Bologna attempting to cross the Adriatic, but have to be rescued after one day at sea.
- J. Kaiserer suggested making a Montgolfière manoeuverable with the help of tame eagles.
- 1807
- Jakob Degen, a watchmaker from Vienna, experimented with an apparatus with valve-flap, flapping wings
- 1808
- Degen tried to combine a Montgolfière with the flapping wings.
- 1809
- Degen propels a hydrogen-filled balloon by flapping large ornithopter-style wings.
- September, Sir George Cayley published his seminal paper On Aerial Navigation, setting out for the first time the scientific principles of heavier-than-air flight.
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