IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Monoplane hang glider built by ...

Orville and Wilbur Wright were inspired by Otto Lilienthal, a German glider pioneer. Though he crashed to his death in 1896, the Wrights were obsessed the technical problems involved in flight. They ...

Gliders and gliding had been central to German aviation since the nineteenth century. When the Third Reich weaponized every aspect of flight in the 1930s, the new Luftwaffe’s pilots trained on gliders ...

Click to open image viewer. Monoplane hang glider built by nineteenth-century German experimenter Otto Lilienthal in 1894. Single surface fabric covering over exposed framework. Wings fold for storage ...