Timeline of Flight

Timeline of Events
Surrounding Take Flight

1867	1871	1876	1877	1879	1891	1896	1897
Wilbur Wright is born.	Orville Wright is born.	Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone.	Thomas Alva Edison perfects the phonograph at his laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey.	Edison perfects the incandescent light bulb.	German inventor Otto Lilienthal begins successful gliding experiments.	Otto Lilienthal crashes while gliding and dies next day.	Amelia Earhart is born.

1902	1903	1908	1914	1917	1927	1928	1929
Charles Lindbergh is born.	Orville and Wilbur Wright make the first powered, sustained, and controlled flight in a heavier-than-air flying machine.	Henry Ford introduces his Model T automobile.	The Panama Canal is completed.	The United States enters World War I.	Lindbergh completes the first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight.	Earhart becomes the first woman to cross the Atlantic in a plane, as a passenger on a flight coordinated by publisher George Putnam.	The Stock Market crashes.
1930	1932	1932	1933	1936	1937
British inventor Frank Whittle invents the jet engine.	March—Lindbergh baby kidnapped	May—Earhart is the first woman to fly a solo nonstop transatlantic flight.	First flight of a Boeing 247, the first modern airliner.	Lindbergh is invited to Germany, where he tours aviation facilities.	Earhart departs from Miami, attempting a round-the-world flight.