> The New York Times, 1903: "Man won't fly for a million years – to build a flying machine would require the combined and continuous efforts of mathematicians a

> The New York Times, 1903: "Man won't fly for a million years – to build a flying machine would require the combined and continuous efforts of mathematicians and mechanics for 1-10 million years." The Wright Brothers made their first powered flight 9 days later. https://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/19/opinion/IHT-1903-wright-brothers-flight-in-our-pages-100-75-and-50-years-ago.html https://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/19/opinion/IHT-1903-wright-b... https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-30d29e9c0cdc44c7a2cb266b02f513d8 https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-30d29e9c0cdc44c7a2cb26...