Everyone knows the Wright brothers invented flight...or did they?
Leonardo Da Vinci and probably many others had already thought up designs well before that.
History of the Airplane
The Wright Brothers patented 821,393 for a “flying machine" and then successful sued everyone including genius motorcycle builder Glenn Curtiss until the Federal Government stepped in at WW1. Curtiss then created several very successful war airplanes. The government later also paid them both off to join forces, and the
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss-Wright corporation was made and still going today.
But before the Wright Brothers, there was at least one known successful flight.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Northeast_Texas_Rural_Heritage_Museum_August_2015_ 32_%28Ezekiel_Airship%29.jpg/1200px-Northeast_Texas_Rural_Heritage_Museum_August_2015_ 32_%28Ezekiel_Airship%29.jpg
