© Crown copyright 2004 The Quest for Knowledge Searching and Selecting: Lesson 3.

© Crown copyright 2004

The Quest for Knowledge

Searching and Selecting: Lesson 3


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The quest for knowledge

• Your quest is to find out the name(s) of the very first person (or people) ever to fly in any kind of aircraft. If you follow the right links, you should find out very quickly. Links are blue or green and are underlined.

When your teacher tells you to start, click on the link below to ...

START


This is your home page

• Follow the links to reach your goal as fast as you can. If you get lost on the way, you must click on the Home link and start your quest again.

• Remember, you are trying to find out the names of the very first people to fly.

All about air

All about birds

All about transport

All about names


Names

• Dictionary of English Surnames

• Choosing a name for your baby

• Home

• Dictionary of European Placenames

• What does your name mean?


Transport

• Railways • Shipping

• The bicycle • Aviation

• Home


Shipping

• Oil tankers • Careers in the merchant navy

• How ships have evolved

• Home

• Warships


The bicycle

• Le Tour de France • Mountain bikes

• Touring by bike • Maintaining your bike

• Home


Railways

• The Indian railway system • The first steam locomotives

• Buying tickets on-line • Trains of the future

• Home


Air

• Airborne diseases • What air is made of

• Winds and storms• The earth’s atmosphere

• Home


You’re lost! Go home and start again!

Home


Birds

• The garden birds of Britain • How birds fly

• Home

• Keeping birds as pets • Flightless birds


Aviation

• The jet engine • The aeroplane in warfare

• Cheap holiday flights • History of flight

• Home


History of flight

• Myths and legends • The 18th century

• The 19th century • The 20th century

• Home


The 18th century

• The hydrogen balloon • The first manned flight

• Across the English Channel

• Failed attempts to fly

• Home


The 19th century

• Steam power • The glider

• Home

• The first model aeroplane

• Otto Lillienthal


The 20th century

• The growth of air travel • The aircraft in warfare

• Home

• The jet engine • Supersonic flight


Myths and legends

• Greek myths of flight • The dragon

• Aztec myths of flight • The broomstick

• Home


The aircraft in warfare

• The early years • The Second World War

• The Vietnam War • The Second Gulf War

• Home


Cheap holiday flights

• Book on-line now • Your local airport

• Home

• Holiday destinations • Holiday insurance


The jet engine

• Frank Whittle

• The history of the jet engine

• The modern airliner engine

• How the jet engine works

• Home


The names of the first people to fly were:

Jean F Pilâtre de Rozierand

The Marquis d’Arlandes


The first manned flight

• Who designed the balloon

• Who flew the balloon

• When the flight took place

• Where the flight took place

• Home

The first manned flight was in a hot-air balloon


The first manned flight took place in Paris

... but that’s not what you have to find out!

Go home and start again!

Home


The designer of the balloon which carried the first people to fly was

Joseph Michael Montgolfier



Home


The first manned flight took place on 21 November 1783



Home

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