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Article: JAMES GATLING WAS FIRST TO TRY AND FIRST TO FAIL AT FLIGHT.(LOCAL)
- Article from:
- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- March 11, 2001
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2001 The Virginian Pilot-Ledger Star. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of the Dialog Corporation by Gale Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Byline: CHRIS KIDDER THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Samuel Langley spent years and thousands of dollars during the 1890s attempting powered flight. His failures are the best-known, but in fact he was neither the first nor the least successful. Those distinctions lie with James Henry Gatling, a Carolina boy.
Gatling was born in 1816, in a small log cabin in Maney's Neck, N.C., near Murfreesboro. He was one of six children of Jordan and Mary Barnes Gatling.
While James Henry was still a child, his father amassed more than 1,200 acres, and the family moved into a ``great house'' more befitting one of the state's largest landowners.
James Henry and ...
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