Flying Machines Which Do Not Fly

"Flying Machines Which Do Not Fly" is an editorial published on 9 October 1903 by The New York Times. The editorial stated that humanity would not be able to make a flying machine (airplanes) for at least one to 10 million years which turned out to be false because two months later the Wright brothers successfully invented the first flying machine on 17 December 1903 in North Carolina. The editorial was initially to respond to Samuel Langley's failed attempt to create a flying machine two days before.
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