There's is quite a list of inventors from around the world who independently inv...

		rickdangerous1 on Nov 23, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Woz: Microsoft might be more creative than Apple There's is quite a list of inventors from around the world who independently invented powered flight at about the same time as the Wright brothers. Flight being invented in 1903 actually has more to do with the evolution of petrol motor power to weight ratios than it did discovering the principles of flight. It would have happened within 1 year of 1903 with or without the Wright bros.

And even if it had taken a decade, that almost certainly wouldn't have set us back a decade today.