✦ Time paradoxes · Closer than it seems
First balloon flight: 1783; Eiffel Tower: 1889; First aeroplane: 1903 — 106 years between the first two, 14 years between the last two.
The Eiffel Tower is closer in time to the first aeroplane flight than to the first manned balloon flight.
Who and what
- First manned balloon flight1783 · Paris. For the first time, people rise into the sky
- Eiffel Tower1889 · Paris. A temporary fair attraction becomes the symbol of Paris
- Wright brothers' first flight1903 · Kitty Hawk. Twelve seconds aloft launch the age of aviation
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