vintage postcards
In 1878 Orville and Wilbur Wright's father, who traveled often as a bishop in the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, brought home a toy "helicopter" for his two younger sons. The device was based on an invention of French aeronautical pioneer Alphonse Penaud. Made of paper, bamboo and cork with a rubber band to twirl its rotor, it was about a foot long. The brothers played with it until it broke, then built their own. In later years, they pointed to their experience that toy as the initial spark of their interest in flying
I wonder what Orville and Wilbur Wright would have said about this Playmobil security check point toy?
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