While the Wright brothers are widely recognized as the fathers of flight, Brazilians believe the true inventor of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

NOVA profiles Alberto Santos-Dumont, a legendary inventor who, at the turn of the 20 th century, inspired a generation of aeronauts to push the limits of their courage and imagination. The program: ...

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 ...

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