After a mysterious and lengthy disappearance, the historic patent documents for the Wright Brothers' groundbreaking flying machine have finally resurfaced and are now at home in the National Archives ...

Nature can be an instructive guide for overcoming technological barriers. In 1969, the American engineer Otto Schmitt coined a term to describe the practice of science pulling from nature’s source ...

Samuel Pierpont Langley, a physicist and astronomer, successfully demonstrated stable, engine-propelled flight in May 1896 with an unmanned aerodrome model, flying for over a minute and covering more ...