Samuel Franklin Cowdery was a Wild West showman and early pioneer of manned flight.
Samuel Franklin Cody in 1909
'Valecroft', Cody's former home in Ash Vale, Surrey, England
Man-lifting War Kite designed by Cody
The wreckage of Cody's fatal air crash
The history of aviation extends for more than two thousand years, from the earliest forms of aviation such as kites and attempts at tower jumping to supersonic and hypersonic flight by powered, heavier-than-air jets.
The Wright Military Flyer aboard a wagon in 1908
French reconnaissance balloon L'Intrépide of 1796, the oldest existing flying device, in the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna
Leonardo da Vinci's ornithopter design
One of Leonardo's sketches