TRUTHS ABOUT FLIGHT Flashcards by Priscilla Gatewood | Brainscape

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500 BC Chinese invented

A

the kite

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900 AD Chinese invented

A

gunpowder

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1100 AD: simple rockets used for:

A

celebrations and warfare

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_________ designed the parachute and helicopter. Understood and wrote about gravity, center of pressure, and streamlining

A

Da Vinci

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__________ Built models of ornithopters (machines with flapping wings)

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Da Vinci

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