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Karl Wilhelm Otto Lilienthal (23 May 1848 – 10 August 1896) was a German pioneer of aviation who became known as the "flying man". [2] He was the first person to make well-documented, repeated, successful flights with gliders , [ 3 ] therefore making the idea of heavier-than-air aircraft a reality.
The town of Anklam is Lilienthal's birthplace. Various objects belonging to the life and work of Otto Lilienthal, among them a reconstruction of a glider from the year 1925 have been part of a local history museum, founded in 1927. The Otto-Lilienthal-Museum was opened in 1991 as a biographical technical museum.
Lichterfelde Süd was developed in the 1960s and 1970s and is large made up of suburban housing estates, being a significant architectural deviation from the older mansion settlements. The Otto Lilienthal Memorial Park with the artificial conical hill, from which he started many of his flight attempts, is located in Lichterfelde Süd.
Otto Lilienthal † 23 May 1848 10 Aug 1896 Germany: Science Design Construction Manufacture Aviator Glider: Designed and constructed a monoplane Derwitzer Glider (1891); [120] after nearly 2,000 flights he constructed a two-surfaced glider (1895); [121] (†) Glider crash (9 Aug 1896), Gollenberg, Germany. [122] Charles Lindbergh: 4 Feb 1902 ...
The "Ehrenhalle" in the Lilienthal Haus on the Wasserkuppe. In the 1930s the "Ehrenhalle" (Hall of Honor) was constructed in the Lilienthal Haus, with heavy bronze doors opening into a large hall with a stained glass window. The centerpiece is a larger-than-life bronze figure of Otto Lilienthal lying on an (empty) tomb. It is a memorial to all ...
Otto Lilienthal: Father of Aviation and first successful aviator. Main discovery was the properties and shape of the wing. Carl von Linde: Engineer who, among other things, developed refrigeration and gas separation technologies. Walter Linderer: Father of the airbag.
A glider called a Large Biplane (Großer Doppeldecker) was designed and built in 1895 as an advanced stage of the Lilienthal Normalsegelapparat – a monoplane glider invented by Otto Lilienthal. The Normalsegelapparat was patented in Germany in 1893, and later in 1895 in the United States and was the first production aircraft in history.
Tegel is chiefly known for being the location of Berlin-Tegel Otto Lilienthal, Berlin's former main airport.It has a population of 33,417 and houses the Tegel Prison, one of Germany's largest prisons with about 1,700 inmates as of 2007, known from Alfred Döblin's 1929 novel Berlin Alexanderplatz.