Richard Pearse. 2 January 2009.

Richard Pearse. 2 January 2009.
Date
2009
Reference
DCDL-0010064
Description

Shows Richard Pearse, the New Zealand farmer and inventor performed pioneering experiments in aviation. Pearse appears to have successfully flown and landed a powered heavier-than-air machine on 31 March 1903, some nine months before the Wright brothers though this claim is controversial. He is shown directing a horse-drawn plough with one hand while he reads a book on how birds fly with the other. Above his head is a flying machine.

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Webb, Murray, 1947- :Digital caricatures
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