Tech History Made on December 27, 1773

If he were still alive then today would be Sir George Cayley's 234th birthday. Deemed the "Father of Aerodynamics" Cayley study the engineering of flight over a century before the first powered flight in 1903. He is mainly noted in history for his piloted gliders, one of which is pictured to the left. Cayley performed many experiements that laid to him discoverying the four forces involved in flight: thrust, lift, drag and gravity. A review of his school notebooks reveals that he had a passion for flight at a young age. Some of his drawings at the young age of nineteen are believed by many to be models of the principles of a lift-generating inclined plane.