After a mysterious and lengthy disappearance, the historic patent documents for the Wright Brothers' groundbreaking flying machine have finally resurfaced and are now at home in the National Archives ...

Nature can be an instructive guide for overcoming technological barriers. In 1969, the American engineer Otto Schmitt coined a term to describe the practice of science pulling from nature’s source ...

First exhibited in 1878, Charles F. Ritchel’s dirigible was about as wacky, dangerous and impractical as any airship ever launched Erik Ofgang - History Correspondent “When I was making it, people ...

For years, social media posts have claimed that the Wright Brothers took flight for the first time the same year The New York Times published an article about it potentially taking 10 million years to ...