Legacy
The Flying Machine was not widely known until the discovery of the notebook in 1876. it was examined for the first time in 1910 by the Royal Aeronautical Society of Great Britain. They called it "the first reasonable suggestion to build a heavier-than-air flying machine." By then working heavier-than-air flying machines had been built, and so it did not play any part in the development of aviation. It was then analyzed by the Smithsonian Institution in 1962, who compared its features with that of later aircraft. A model of the ship was created and stands in the Air & Space section of the museum.
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