lillienthal

Updated: September 25, 2025

He had followed the crude beginnings of aerial navigation very keenly in his previous life; he was delighted to find the familiar names of Maxim and Pilcher, Langley and Chanute, and, above all, of the aerial proto-martyr Lillienthal, still honoured by men.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - When the Sleeper Wakes