Editing Swedenborg 1714 Flying Machine (section)

{{short description|1714 sketch by the Swedish scientist Emanuel Swedenborg}}
[[Image:Swdbg2.jpg|thumb|The Flying Machine, sketched in his notebook from 1714. See Smithsonian model and explanation by Dr. Paul Garber, former Curator of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, on the principle of flight of the aircraft. His descriptions may be found in a chapter of the Söderburg book,<ref>Söderberg, H. ''Swedenborg's 1714 Airplane: A Machine to Fly in the Air'' (1988)</ref> p. 32, or on the video clip at 5:48 on its timeline.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-k6HRf0E0g | title=- YouTube | website=[[YouTube]] }}</ref> Dr. Garber also closely supervised the construction of the Smithsonian model of the machine.<ref>Söderberg, p. 52ff.</ref>]]

'''Swedenborg's Flying Machine''' was first sketched by the Swedish scientist [[Emanuel Swedenborg]] in 1714, when he was 26 years old.<ref>Söderberg, Henry ''En machine att flyga i Wädret,'' from Daedalus, Sweden 1988, {{ISBN|91-7616-018-1}}</ref><ref>Söderberg, Henry ''Swedenborg's 1714 airplane: a machine to fly in the air'' (1988), {{ISBN|0-87785-138-7}}</ref><ref>Derry TK, Williams, TI  ''A Short History of Technology: From the Earliest Times to A.D. 1900'' Oxford 1960 p. 398-397</ref><ref>Egan, G. (ed.) [http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/swedenborg.html ''Aviation Pioneers: An Anthology: The Sociocultural Genesis of the Flying Saucer: The Swedenborg Hybrid Ornithopter of 1714'']</ref>  It was later published in his periodical, ''Daedalus Hyperboreus'', in 1716. While [[Leonardo da Vinci]]’s designs predate those of Swedenborg, da Vinci’s manuscripts remained unknown due to a variety of circumstances until the late 19th century.<ref>Hureau de Villeneuve, A. Leonardo da Vinci, Aviateur, ''L’aeréonaute’'' 7e Année, No. 9, Sept. 1874, cited in Söderberg, H. ''Swedenborg's 1714 airplane: a machine to fly in the air'' (1988), {{ISBN|0-87785-138-7}}, p. 2</ref><ref>Library of Congress.[https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/wb-dream.html''The Dream of Flight.  A Library of Congress Special Presentation Commemorating the Centennial of Flight'']</ref> So, in terms of influence, Swedenborg predated da Vinci.