Emanuel Swedenborg's Flying Machine (1714)

[RocketmanTan]

After reading through some history of the Swedish Empire during the Great Northern War, I came across an interesting machine devised by scientist Emanuel Swedenborg - a flying machine.

Here's a wikiepdia article to give you an idea of what it was like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Machine_(Swedenborg)

And a progress pic:

 

[RocketmanTan]

instructions are done - just have to do the cover page.

 

[RocketmanTan]

testbuild's done:

 

[RocketmanTan]

model's up: http://fav.me/d56pwjo

 

[Zathros]

Very interesting, historically too. I bet that with some work, a functional kite could be made out of that! Nice model by the way!

 

[RocketmanTan]

Very interesting, historically too. I bet that with some work, a functional kite could be made out of that! Nice model by the way!

I'd love to see someone do that!

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