Ante 100 annos (17 decembre 1903) Orville e Wilbur Wright volava lor prime avion a Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, comenciante le epocha de aviation que culminava in nostre aviones a reaction e lor servicios routinari de transporte intercontinental de mercantias e passageros. Le patres del fratres Wright habeva un influentia importantissime in lor carriera de pionieros in le aviation. Lor patre faceva cochis. Lor matre anque habeva un certe talento mechanic. Illa fabricava joculos pro su infantes e apparatos utile pro su travalios de casa. In 1878 lor patre comprava pro illes un joculo simile a un helicoptero, que eveliava in illes un grande interesse in le mechanica del volo. Con le adjuta de lor patres illes deveniva expertos in le reparation de bicylettas, e con le tempore illes comenciava creder que con lor cognoscimentos, illes anque poterea fabricar machinas que permitterea que illes volava con le aves. Illes comenciava modestemente con cometas de papiro. Tunc illes progredeva a planatores. Finalmente illes applicava un motor e duo helices a un ex lor planatores, e in 1903 illes volava 35 metros in 12 secundas. Un pauco plus tarde ille mesme die, Wilbur volava 260 metros in 59 secundas. Le jornales de ille dies non prestava multe attention al prime volos del fratres Wright, e illes retornava a Dayton, Ohio, pro continuar lor recercas in le technica del volo. In 1908 Wilbur demonstrava un ex lor aviones in Europa in un volo que durava plus que duo horas. In 1909 illes comenciava le production commercial de lor aviones, e tosto multe alteres comenciava modificar lor designos, e le disveloppamento de aviones moderne sequeva un curso de evolution rapidissime comparate al evolution de naves marin. Le acceleration del taxa de evolution technologic in general durante le seculo XX deveniva stupefacente, e il es ben possibile que intra 50 annos le evolution del informatica producera systemas que rivalisara le capacitates intellectual del melior cerebros human. --- One hundred years ago (December 17, 1903) Orville and Wilbur Wright flew their first airplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, starting the age of aviation that culminated in our jet planes and routine intercontinental transport services for passengers and freight. The parents of the Wright brothers had an important influence on their career as aviation pioneers. Their father was a coach maker. Their mother also had a certain mechanical bent/talent. She made toys for her children and useful appliances for doing housework. In 1878 their father bought for them a toy resembling a helicopter, which evoked/stimulated in them a great interest in the mechanics of flight. With the help of their parents they became experts in (repairing bicycles) / (bicycle repair), and in time they began to believe that with this knowledge they would also be able to make machines that would allow them to fly like birds. They started out modestly with paper kites. Then they went on to gliders. Finally they applied an engine and two propellers to one of their gliders, and in 1903 they flew 35 meters in twelve seconds. A little later on that same day, Wilbur flew 260 meters in fifty-nine seconds. The newspapers of those days didn't pay much attention to the first flights of the Wright brothers, and they returned to Dayton, Ohio, to continue their research into the technology of flying. In 1908 Wilbur demonstrated one of their planes in Europe in a flight that lasted longer than two hours. In 1909 they started commercial production of their planes, and soon many other people started to modify their designs, and the development of modern airplanes followed a very rapid evolutionary course compared to the evolution of marine ships. The acceleration of the rate of technological evolution in general during the twentieth century became utterly (amazing) / (mind blowing), and it is quite possible that within fifty years the evolution of computer science will produce systems that will rival the intellectual capacities of the best human brains. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com