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> an invention that was already ripe for the taking. Powered, controlled flight was clearly not ripe for the taking at the time the Wrights embarked on solving
by WalterBright 2y ago
> an invention that was already ripe for the taking.
Powered, controlled flight was clearly not ripe for the taking at the time the Wrights embarked on solving it. See the list of their accomplisments I posted. They had to get all of them right to solve the problem. Which is another reason why I'm not buying what the pretender defenders contend.
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- WalterBright 2y agoTo expand on that a bit, the Wrights clearly needed to solve multiple basic problems in order to produce a working airplane. To do this, they first identified the problems, then conducted a directed research and development program to solve them, one by one. Having solved them, they combined the results into a working airplane. Nobody else was doing that at the time. Without the Wrights, individual inventors might each solve one of the problems independently, and then a later individual puts it together. The Wright approach was itself fundamentally innovative.