O brasileiro Alberto Santos Dumont é considerado o Pai da Aviação. Ele ganhou esse título porque construiu o 14-Bis, primeira aeronave com motor e hélice que voou por uma distância de 60 m (a 3 m de ...

A piece of sculpture holding a preserved human heart was a new feature of Rio de Janeiro last week. The heart thus honored was that of Brazil’s pioneer aviator, Alberto Santos-Dumont, who at Bagatelle ...

From the first aeronautical exhibition in 1908 to postwar salons, Paris’s Grand Palais became the birthplace of global ...

Alberto Santos-Dumont’s 14 Bis had three distinctly different sets of controls, which provided the aircraft’s stability. Courtesy Dan Hagedorn On October 21, the National Air and Space Museum will ...

The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) designated the birthplace of Alberto Santos-Dumont in Cabangu, Minas Gerais, Brazil, as a Historic Aerospace Site on Sept. 13. Brazil's ...

At the height of his career, the pioneering aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont believed that flight could be a pathway to world peace, enabling people to reflect on the all-too-human world below and ...

This thoroughly entertaining history of one of the currently overlooked heroes from early–20th-century aviation equals that of Hoffman's earlier volume, The Man Who Loved Only Numbers. Almost unknown ...

THE death at Säo Paulo, Brazil, on July 23, of M. Alberto Santos-Dumont, at the age of fifty-nine years, removes another of the few remaining pioneers through whose efforts mechanical flight was ...

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The Cartier Santos – often regarded as the first men’s wristwatch, dating back to 1904 – continues its evolution with two new ...