After a failed flight attempt, Wilbur Wright frustratingly said to his brother Orville, “Not within a thousand years would man ever fly” (Wright-brothers n.d.). That was the prediction of 1901. And that was how impossible flying was then, also discouraging. In 1903, however, Orville and Wilbur Wright built the first flying machine. And the rest is history as we know it today.
Napoleon said in the early 1800s: “What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck? I pray you excuse me, I have no time to listen to such nonsense” (Holley 1997). The first successful steamboat was the Clermont, which was built by American inventor Robert Fulton in 1807.
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